Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later, he took to publishing his jottings, brought out six volumes in nine years. This week, with the U.S. publication of his latest two books, No Idle Words and Having the Last Word, in one volume (E. P. Dutton; $3), U.S. readers could go hunting for rescued relics to enrich their own speech. Samples...
...construed as illegal. They operate through lawyers- men who are known as clever lawyers a cleverness which is like the instinct of the rat that knows how to get the bait without getting caught. Many businessmen, ostensibly reputable business men, employ these knavish lawyers to circumvent the law and enrich then selves at Government expense...
...fewer than 6,000 books, struggle along with budgets of less than $4,000, are able to buy only 330 books a year, including replacements of worn-out favorites. At least two-thirds of all U.S. libraries have no adequate stock of reference works, make too little attempt to enrich their shelves with classics...
...Russia, the ducts of the young Soviet economy were all clogged up. Peasants were holding back food; managers of government stores and small factories cared little whether goods moved. Lenin reacted drastically by introducing the NEP (New Economic Policy). It restored a profit appetite to producers .and managers. "Enrich yourselves!" the peasants were told. But politically, Lenin's government remained Communist: after Russia got on its feet, the NEPmen were purged...
Willie's predicament, and his way out, give Director John Ford and some able performers a chance to enrich Hollywood's current war cycle with what has been missing thus far: comedy and comment. Less cutting and vigorous but still strongly reminiscent of the early Preston (Hail the Conquering Hero) Sturges, the movie delightfully sasses Army brass, a small town's home-front foibles and the windy patriotism of the professional World War 1 veteran...