Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rearmament's Bulge. Rearmament's demands had also perked up many an industry, notably aluminum. Reynolds Metals net jumped from $1,454,257 to $5,696,031, a 300% rise. Big American Woolen Co., which has either a feast or a famine, watched its profits soar from a moth-eaten $230,000 to $1,095,000. And the once-sputtering airlines were purring like jets: American turned a $1,331,285 loss into a $2,914,610 profit. The building boom, nipped by restrictions on private housing, had merely shifted its base to the bigger boom of expanding...
...Welcome Home" etc. (As soon as we entered China, we didn't have to carry anything because various cadres carried it all for us.) Several times especially prepared with welcoming banners then took us to Ai Chun Hotel, one of the two best hotels in Canton. There was a feast prepared for us, but because I was already late, there were no speeches or activities that night. We visited a large celebration several days after of the first anniversary of Canton's liberation, in which we had grandstand seats. Then we visited a college the training cadres, or for political...
...bosses the country. Wenzel has to leave Caleta Colosal because he has persuaded the Nitra workers to strike for 10 pesos more a day. But, like Hemingway's hero in For Whom the Bell Tolls, he has learned a lesson in human solidarity: "No one can celebrate a feast day by himself...
Mixed Effect. The effect of Communist persecutions on Chinese Catholics, according to Father Grady, has been mixed. "As pressure against religion has mounted . . Catholics who live in cities have frequented the sacraments in larger numbers than ever. On feast days, families of the faithful have come in from the countryside to Mass, sometimes walking 15 or more miles in thin cotton shoes over narrow paths and rough roads. An unexpected number of lax Catholics .. . have returned to more fervent and integral service...
Would either accomplish the job that had to be done: drive the shark back to deep water, or shoot it? Douglas was convinced that neither could. The end of Gibraltarism would be the feast of the shark on all Asia and Europe, he argued. U.S. forces, he said, are the key to West Europe's resistance. "If we refuse [to help], they . . . may indeed throw in the sponge...