Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly on the ''warmth and gaiety" that the wastrel brings into people's lives. Loaf Sugar, by Konstantin Paustovsky, features an overbearing Soviet Organization Man whose mere presence "filled the air with weary boredom...
...hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity it is! When I look at the forests, and the clear water, and the children and the grasses, I just haven't got the strength...
...accident, how can physicians tell how much radiation a victim has received? Last week the Walter Reed Army Medical Center at Bethesda. Md. unveiled one of the nation's two "whole-body counting facilities." The patient, on a hammock sling, is slid into the machine like a French loaf into an oven, and dials immediately register how much radioactive material (emitting gamma rays,) he has absorbed...
Flying Down to Rio. In Rio, where he was comfortably ensconced last week in a $300-a-month apartment with a view of famed Sugar Loaf Mountain, Belle blandly denied that he had stolen a dime. "All I got," said he, "is $2,600-my wife's savings." As to the other $800,000 or so, Belle said unscrupulous former associates stole it. He also said that he would "never" return to the U.S. "I guess permanent exile is punishment enough...
...that is just what the N.A.M. and the Chamber want. Reason: they object to half a dozen minor Taft-Hartley revisions, e.g., requiring employers to report to the Labor Department all financial dealings with labor unions or labor officials. As for reforming unions, the bill is only "half a loaf," argues the N.A.M., apparently forgetting what half a loaf is proverbially better than...