Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept yanking on the diving line and saying to myself, 'Oh, my God, won't they ever pull me up?' Then they started raising me, and all of a sudden the shark swam away. It took me about half a day before I could get up enough nerve to go back down again." Deir himself was working below decks when his acetylene torch sparked an explosion. Sent ashore to a hospital, he turned up again in a few days, scabbed with black burns. Said he: "We got work to do, boys...
...fervor was not enough. Wheat had been so closely planted that it toppled over or died of contagious rust. Newly dug potatoes rotted in the fields while peasants were rushed off to erect dams. Jerry-built mines collapsed, and backyard iron proved worthless for industrial use. In the cities there was noisy talk of a bumper harvest, but long queues of housewives found the stores empty...
...another purge in Peking was scarcely enough to take the peasants' minds off their woes. For that purpose, Mao & Co. raised the cry that "foreign imperialists" were threatening peace-loving China. It was a hoary gambit, especially for Peking. In 1950 the Communists had helped consolidate their initial conquest of China by intervention in Korea. The bombardment of Quemoy in 1958 had helped reconcile China's masses to the strains of the big leap. Now, to divert attention from its failure, Peking could point to the bloody revolt in Tibet, Indian "aggression" along the Tibetan frontier...
...release, secure in the knowledge that he could never be retried for the murder, he sold his gaudy story to the Pic for $5,600. When this nest egg began to run low, he replenished it by means of a couple of bank robberies. But each time police got enough evidence to go after him, he darted across the Channel to safety...
...their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good enough to teach...