Word: equilibrist
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Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this ... Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when...
Suitably clad in resplendent attire, the world's two great high-wire artists met last week in Belgrade. Clad in gleaming white jodhpurs and close-fitting achkan (three-quarter length jacket) of cinnamon homespun. India's arch-equilibrist Jawaharlal Nehru had come to return a visit paid him last winter by Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, a man even more skilled at walking the tightrope of neutralism. There was no real business to be transacted between them, but at least the two could compare notes and talk about their favorite topic-advantageous coexistence...
...been forced to experiment with foreign exchange control. With exports falling in 1933, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, head of the Nazified Reichsbank, first prohibited the transfer of interest on German foreign debts and then evolved a system of control boards to balance imports and exports. Out of these equilibrist schemes grew the blocked currency accounts and the barter devices, with the Germans paying foreign exporters in special marks good only for German goods at a price lower than the internal price level. Boycotts and currency difficulties kept lopping off chunks of normal German trade with England...
...usual equilibrist act as the bill's opener is excellent, the "death-defying, daredevil climax" really giving us a thrill. Haye and Sayre, the two man dance team are very good as long as they are dancing, but unfortunately they attempt to sing too often...
...flute. At the gymnasium in Pskoff, he won a reputation as a humorist, and he read much, falling under the influence of Mayne and Reid and writing his first novel at the age of 13. About this time, too, he joined a circus and performed as an equilibrist near Pskoff...