Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendès' view might be put in the French saying, Reculer pour mieux sauter-take a step backward so as to jump better. He argues that by trying to be strong everywhere, France is strong nowhere, that strength cannot be achieved anywhere with an overburdened or propped-up economy. Says a British friend: "He does not argue that France should stand alone, but that France should stand erect...
...successful. Its hero, who is blind in one eye, sees the tail end of a murder in a forest near London. After he is temporarily blinded in the other eye by an accident, the murderers capture him, and the action gets under way as a dipsomaniac doctor prepares to pour acid in the hero's good eye. The chase in the dark has the reader identified with the hero all the way. Justice, as it must in such a tale, triumphs...
...McCarthy held for weeks to his position that no transcripts of monitored phone calls could go in the Mundt committee record unless all of them went in. Gradually, this position melted, and last week the calls began to pour into the record. So far the results added up to a substantial advantage for McCarthy's side of the case...
Melon & Coke. Murchison has built such a wheeling-dealing reputation that propositions pour into his downtown Dallas office at the rate of more than 600 a year. Only a handful are acted on. Murchison does most of his thinking about these while others sleep. He gets up as early as 3:30 a.m., brews himself a pot of coffee and sits for hours, thinking and listening to the Rev. W. E. Hawkins, a fundamentalist preacher on Dallas' Station KRLD. After breakfast (a slice of melon or a bottle of Coke) he drives himself to work in a 1953 Ford...
Backing up the optimism, cheery first-quarter earnings reports continued to pour out, chiefly as a result of the end of the excess-profits tax. Such rubber-industry giants as Goodrich and U.S. Rubber both announced higher profits than in 1953. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) brought in earnings of $146 million, up $8,000,000 from last year; Westinghouse zoomed from $16.8 million to $26.3 million...