Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This hunger for poetic expression was part of a larger hunger for all of human experience. Keats was frankly sensuous: "Talking of Pleasure," he writes to a friend, "this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine-good god how fine. It went down soft, slushy, oozy." This Keats, who loved food, pretty girls and hiking, does not match the stereotype of the romantic poet; he is far closer to Bernard Shaw's description of him as "a merry soul, a jolly fellow, who could not only carry his splendid...
...pattern of war in Korea last week: small-scale skirmishing, punctuated by a few violent flurries where larger units met. Screening their buildup for a new offensive, the Chinese and North Koreans slowed down the cautiously probing Eighth Army to a snail's pace or stopped it altogether...
...airliner this week at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport. Their mission: to negotiate a new trade agreement with Argentina. Said Dr. Günter Seeliger, the mission chief: "It will not be double the old [$132 million] agreement, but we hope it will be a good deal larger...
...zone for firing. The 4th will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver a unit larger than a regiment. Says General Thomas Handy, boss, under Eisenhower, of the European Command (EUCOM): "I guess...
...three times a day, they are fed with water containing the necessary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium). The water, drained back by gravity into an underground reservoir, is used over & over again. There are two farms, one at Chofu, 14 miles from Tokyo, the other near Kyoto. The larger installation at Chofu has 50 acres of hydroponic plots in the open and five acres under a million-dollar greenhouse, has its own ice plant and railroad siding...