Word: path
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emotion he may feel is kept well under control, save for an occasional sharp word to a bungling manager, or a blast of choice invective to some motorboat jockey who wanders out on the course just before starting time, kicking up waves in the path of the crews...
...life, since I was a young lawyer, I have wanted to be a judge," Connecticut's big, friendly Republican Senator Raymond Baldwin declared last week. Instead, his path had kept him in politics for 20 years. After three terms as governor of Connecticut, he passed up a $30,000-a-year job as vice president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. to answer the party call again and make the race for the Senate...
...selection of material is ruthlessly right. The war story, for most of its path, crashes like a hurtling tank through the forest of events. But the hard unity and rounded drama of each chapter brakes the rush, preserves a sense of direction, and imposes a feeling of historic logic. The pictures themselves satisfy, or fail to, in about the same degree and frequency as actuality itself. Yet now & again, as actuality can, a few moments blaze with the fire of art. Items...
...Puerto Rico, overcrowded (pop. 2,200,000) and long tied to a one-crop (sugar) economy, the path ahead was indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps...
...peace, like the majesty of God. This peace is lacking in atonal music [which] has grown restless. There is a lot of intellect and combination, there is plenty of intelligence, but ängler, listening to atonal music is like "walking through a dense forest; strange flowers are lining the path; you don't know whence you come and you don't know whither...