Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side took on a shiny finish. In the full-scale machine, which took seven years to get working properly, a wide ribbon of soft glass is floated in a tank of molten metal (the metal or alloy used is a trade secret). As the ribbon moves to the far end of the tank, it is cooled by a controlled atmosphere and finally solidifies. The result is a sheet of glass that is mirror-flat and fire-bright...
...drama, where crossed planks do for a shogun's litter. No occasion passes, among haiku composers, without hundreds of commemorative haiku, frequently written on the spot. A thief, about to be hanged for his crime, couched his last words in the haiku form: "As for the end -/ that I'll hear in the next world./ cuckoo, my friend." For the lower-brows there are even earthy haiku, called senryu in honor of their creator, who died more than a century ago; senryu fanciers publish 30 magazines of their...
...father a love of Japanese art and literature, nourished by several long visits to the country. Existing haiku translations dismayed him. Most of his 375 translations rhyme, on the very reasonable premise that Japanese haiku might rhyme too but for the limitations of a language in which all words end in n or a vowel...
...trouble with a little inflation," says a high Treasury Department official, "is that it tends to accelerate because people will count on it as a way of life. If people resign themselves to it, that makes for false decisions, distortions of value, and an overbuilt, overbought economy that will end up in collapse and controls...
...promised. Their life is drunken, pointless; it lacks everything except passion and a kind of intermittent gentleness that at its best seems better than the best kind of conventional security. But Carmian finally learns that a lover who lives from day to day and embrace to embrace can only end by becoming a burden...