Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite ready to declare the recession extinct or the threat of a setback ended. Automobile production sagged 19% off last year's rate; industrial building was off 31%. Canadians also kept an eye on the U.S., where an economic revival is certain to give an extra push to Canadian business...
Israel Lazar, also known as William Lawrence, 54, sometime manager of the now extinct Daily Worker, was identified by ex-Communist Witness John Lautner as head of a Communist Party "cultural division" that directed and coordinated the work of secret Reds in the entertainment industry. Lazar refused to confirm or deny anything...
...practice in 1943, when he became a member of the A.F.M.'s executive board. His grey-flannel-suited unionism is as remote from Jimmy's overpadded whoop-and-holler style as the violin section from the brasses. The Petrillo breed, lamented Jimmy last week, is extinct: "I used to be able to say to the bosses, 'Go to hell,' and they went to hell. Now you tell them 'Go to hell,' and they tell you back, 'You go to hell.' What the unions need these days is smooth guys." Responded Smooth...
...tempered Malcolm Muggeridge (onetime editor of Punch) last week shot off, in the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald, a characteristic Muggeridge salvo: "Superficially, Australia is very British, indeed-in fact, I should say decidedly more British than Britain is. It constitutes a kind of National Park in which extinct British species can be seen living in their natural habitat. But I cannot help thinking that Australia's Britishness belongs more to a dream than to reality...
...trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...