Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman last week signed the bill providing $400 million worth of aid to Greece and Turkey, the Truman Doctrine badly needed a full directive and fresh campaign maps. Just what was the Truman Doctrine, anyway? Did it mean that Uncle Sam had turned world fireman and would henceforth be riding here & there to three-alarm fires, trying to douse flames with dollars? If so, a lot of alarm bells were going to be ringing at once. Or was the U.S. aiming at something larger, more foresighted, and more likely to succeed? Instead of waiting for alarms, would it seize...
Musicals were few but they were particularly adventurous and fresh. Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon snubbed formulas while successfully serenading fantasy; and even such a flop as Beggars' Holiday had the courage of its confusions. Meanwhile, two generally effective musical plays, Street Scene and Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium, started battering down the partition between theater and opera...
...bargain which expatriates used to brag about. His hotel suite (large bedroom, bathroom, private balcony) looked out over pink stucco villas toward the island of Ischia. The room and meals cost 1,400 lire ($1.75 black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim...
...world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...
That in itself was an admission that the bill would not be perfect. Like all legislation, it would be the result of compromise. Both the Taft and Hartley bills were needlessly complex, and had some confusing passages. Neither represented a fresh start on the labor problem. They were amendments-fairly substantial-of the Wagner Act. But they in no way interfered with the basic purpose of that act, which was to establish labor's right to organize...