Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power partially on the strength of his outspoken criticism of his predecessors' economic bungling, argued that impoverished Poland could no longer afford such inefficiency. His remedy: mass dismissal of surplus, lazy and unskilled workmen. In effect, he tacitly confessed that the price of Communist full employment is intolerably low productivity and a uniform level of poverty. A handful of hardcore Stalinists who have never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's lack of reverence for Russian economic and political practice fought the proposal bitterly, but in the end Gomulka carried the day. At Nowa Huta 800 men have already been...
With this untimely paucity of first-line troops, the Crimson will be forced to rely reavily on maximum efforts from border-line cases such as Lee Barnes in the dash; Dave Rosenthal, in the low hurdles; Al Gordon and Ben Kaltreiter in the quarter; and Bill Thompson and Jim Schlaeppi in the distances...
...sciences, and the fact that the Report neglected it to the extent it did indicates that the Committee was not fully prepared to put general education in the natural sciences on a footing with the other two divisions. The program in natural sciences is set up with such a low standard of achievement that a man can leave the College knowing a little high school algebra and plane geometry, having an idea of the biological developments through history, and nothing else. It is possible to graduate from Harvard with no conception whatsoever of the physical sciences; and yet perhaps more...
...whose deepest joy comes when a white is made "beautiful," i.e., seen in the final torments of death. The plot is so firmly tied to coincidence as to make it seem slightly ridiculous. After a raid, Nebu drops off from his Mau Mau gang to fol low white tracks through the bush. When he catches up to the white man, he finds his old boss, and after he has killed him, he discovers the white man's son, a crippled boy of ten. The boy is neither white nor black. He is, in fact, Nebu...
...literary voice of Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden is soft, gentle and low, and so are her subjects-sensitive children, nuns, quietly contented families and the timeless tranquillities of India and England. It is always something of a shock when her characters come upon the worm of experience in the apple of innocence. But find it they do. After that Author Godden usually chucks the reader under his chin and reminds him that the world of man really began with a little knowledge of good and evil...