Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic pressures forced some action, then Franco would probably step aside for a junta of generals-with military and police controls clamping down tighter than ever. Restoration of the monarchy might follow...
...only wanted to continue a career which I started ten years before 1933. . . . When the Nazis came Goebbels told me that I could stay in Germany as an unpolitical artist. This I did. . . . I've never conducted in a conquered country. I didn't want to follow tanks into other people's countries. . . . Where was the music of Beethoven more needed than in Himmler's Germany? . . . I am no more guilty than a potato dealer who continued to sell potatoes in the Third Reich...
...have been removed. Management, interpreting facts in its own way and using its own judgment, will certainly raise prices if it has to raise wages. Even as the C.I.O. got ready to swing the Nathan club, General Motors' President C. E. Wilson stated flatly that price rises would follow wage rises as night follows day. Whether the policy was stupid, as Reuther declared, this was the reality, and responsible labor leaders had to reckon with...
Some of the "marginal tribes" have faded into legend; some have taken a bumpy ride on the tailboard of civilization, and a few still follow their ancient way of life. Ethnologists cherish them all as significant "fossil cultures." The ancestors of modern, civilized man, they believe, also passed through comparable stages many thousands of years...
...prose translators-Samuel Butler, S. K. Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...