Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain tossed the new International Court of Justice its first juicy nut last week. It was a tropical product of the days when English pirates set up their bases on the Mosquito Coast and raided the Spanish Main. British Honduras grew out of some of the old bases. But Spain's old captain generalcy of Guatemala owned the land and modern Guatemala claimed sovereignty over the British colony...
...gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names as Bonelli and Swarthout...
...little ex-mayor, crowed a sharp warning to his advertising sponsor, Liberty magazine, just before he began his Sunday-night ABC network commentary this week: "If they announce that the sponsor is not responsible for their commentator's sentiments, I'll announce that the sponsor's product is not necessarily endorsed by the commentator...
...nine of N.R.D.G.A.'s exhibits which OPA has been able to trace, seven were phony, said Bowles. Example: a shoddy $5.50 iron was a poor version of a shiny, solidly built product which the New York manufacturer had originally shown OPA to geb a favorable ceiling. OPA now has him in court...
Brideshead Revisited is a by-product of Waugh's military career. He wrote the 351-page novel while nursing a foot broken in a parachute jump. To many U.S. readers this book will be their first exposure to one of the wittiest, most corrosively mocking and violently serious minds now writing English prose-a mind whose career is almost as exciting as the books it has produced...