Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the last session of Congress, the two Oregonians Morsebergered such routine Northwest Democratic proposals as the federal high dam in Hells Canyon (aye) and such routine liberal stands as Scott McLeod's appointment as Ambassador to Ireland (nay). But on larger issues they were almost totally at issue. Neuberger favored the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Administration's budget requests, the civil rights bill. Fiery Wayne Morse opposed them all, testily told the folks back home that "Dick Neuberger was one of the Democratic liberals sucked in on the civil rights bill." Through the entire session, Neuberger more often...
Some foreign investors pass up the stock market, buy up large amounts of marks. Said a Dusseldorf banker: "The other day a Norwegian walked in with 2,000,000 DM he had bought and asked us to keep it until the day when it might suddenly become a much larger sum." Throughout the world, foreigners who have bought goods from West Germany are paying their bills with unaccustomed haste to beat any possible revaluation, and sellers to West Germany are letting their debts go in expectation of revaluation profits...
...predilection for shoptalk. In these pieces, which range in time from 1926 to the present and in subject matter from Virgil to Kipling, the poet-critic is talking shop about the poet's trade. But, Eliot being Eliot, there is also an underlying concern with the larger meaning...
Modern Syria, one of four nations carved out of old Syria since World War I,* is only slightly larger than Missouri. Of its 72,000 square miles, one-third is desert or mountain, another third is steppe, which furnishes seasonal pasturage for Bedouins. Save for a bit of the Euphrates Valley and the wheat-growing plains of the extreme northeast, most of Syria's fertile land lies in a narrow, well-watered belt paralleling the Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus...
...features a tough-minded Episcopal rector who copes with the eternal muddle of sin without sentimentalizing the sinner. The Just and the Unjust, the best U.S. novel ever fashioned around the law, focuses on a small-town murder trial; it illuminates both the law's technicalities and its larger meaning, its limitations and its glories (which are often the same thing). Guard of Honor, the best of U.S. World War II novels, revolves around a delicate problem in white-Negro race relations at a Florida air base; but poised on this axis is a massive, self-contained world...