Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police or prisons. In the old hopeful days it was called the "Soviet Home for Those Who Have Lost Their Freedom." These days, it is frankly known as Lyubyanka Prison, for, as an eminent Soviet journal wrote in a campaign against squeamishness: "A prison is a prison." On his rare public appearances with other Soviet big shots, Beria usually seeks out Georgy Malenkov, obese, agate-eyed secretary of the Communist Party. Beria and Malenkov chat vivaciously, swap notes. They seem to like each other. The other leaders do not seem to like either of them...
Strikes are comparatively rare in Britain these days. Most British workers have been willing enough to heed their government's pleas, swallow their grievances and stay on the job. But there are some things a self-respecting Briton can't swallow. That was the way of it with 26-year-old Alf Cole, driver's mate on a lorry owned by Wells and Winch, the big brewers of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire...
...easy to see that, Henry Adams to the contrary, Saint-Gaudens had not been smothered. Manhattan's Century Association, a gathering place for arts and artists that have begun to gather dust, put on a private showing which highlighted the delicacy of his bas-reliefs and reached a rare pitch of portraiture in the stubble-bearded head of General Sherman-as melancholy and implacable as the head of a fighting cock...
...have served as state and federal prosecutor for many years. I know that conviction of the innocent is rare indeed, but it did happen here, and it hurts to know that some of my fellow Americans are feasting upon...
...will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce. But to write a work of minor stature as well as O'Connor does is in itself a kind of triumph all too rare...