Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seventeen years after the war we are still fighting on the farm for every pound of bread," exclaims Anany Egorovich Mysovsky, chairman of the fictional New Life kolkhoz in Abramov's tale, entitled Round and About. In these excerpts, Abramov follows Mysovsky on a day-long inspection tour of a typical collective. It is the middle of the harvest season, but one of the farm's tractor drivers shows up drunk and the other is stuck in a ditch; villagers are lolling about in the community bath houses instead of working the fields; for five months they have...
...lagging economy and win back the voters who have drifted away from the Tories in recent months. But hard-headed Maudling. 46, was determined not to risk a burst of inflation that might bring back the old familiar balance-of-payments problem and weaken the value of the pound sterling abroad. Between stagnation and never having it so good he chose a middle road...
Living in Italy since 1958, when the U.S. found him mentally unfit to face treason charges (after twelve years in a federal hospital), Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound, 77, who spent World War II broadcasting for Mussolini, told the weekly Epoca: "I was always wrong. I lived all my life thinking I knew something; then a day came when I realized I didn't know a thing. My intentions were good, but I was stupid. Now I simply contemplate...
...between major British cities on frequent, fast schedules. Under Beeching's plan, which Parliament is expected to adopt, the comfortable sound of the puffing billies chugging through the British countryside will become a thing of the past. Beeching is willing to trade it for the rustle of pound notes...
There is much of the comings and goings of the devoted admirers - Braque. Virgil Thomson, Lytton Strachey, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound. Ford Madox Ford and, of course, the young Hemingway -who sat in the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus reverently listening to the voice that Alice Toklas can still plainly hear - "deep, full, velvety like a great contralto's." She heard it last in a hospital room shortly before Gertrude was wheeled away for an operation that she did not survive: "By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next...