Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens when money wages rise more on the average than output per person." It is this kind of inflation that currently grips Britain, which has enjoyed no such rise in productivity as Germany and France have had. The British government accepts this analysis. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft said: "If a nation pays itself 7% more for doing no more work, as happened last year, price increases will follow as the night follows day." But Thorneycroft is loth to do more than exhort his countrymen to work harder and resist gains that cancel themselves out. Committed both...
...flat paintings caused a national flutter. Parishioners gaped up at Jesus as a boy in a red sweater, Mary in a black dress and black silk stockings carrying a shopping bag, Joseph in a Trilby hat and yellow zippered jerkin, John in rolled-up shirtsleeves and corduroy slacks, and Peter in a grey flannel suit...
OPERATION SEA LION (323 pp.)-Peter Fleming-Simon & Schuster...
That the grim period from Dunkirk into the Battle of Britain brought out the most eccentric as well as the best qualities of the British is a major part of the thesis of Writer-Adventurer (Brazil, Tartary, etc.) Peter Fleming. The invasion-threatened British were often funny in the way in which a man, scrambling out of mortal danger, sometimes forgets his pants, and the Germans achieved heights of sinister absurdity. These facts, in focus with Fleming's sharp eye, make sprightly reading of what would otherwise be simply a well-organized and well-informed piece of contemporary narrative...
...excellent guide to the spirit of the period. The Home Guard went into action, some appearing on horseback with bowler hats and shotguns. Others (including Author Fleming) were organized into guerrilla bands with underground hideouts like "the Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred to this as "scallywagging." Smart shops advertised that beneath their millinery could be found lightweight steel caps. By German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down...