Word: rutted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grows older, and that he sometimes sits at the typewriter and stares at it for three days without writing a word: "For the past two years I've been doing the same things in the same manner. I'm afraid I'm in a rut...
...swelling roar from the stands as the six-horse field came into the final turn. With less than a quarter-mile to go, a fast-stepping brown mare named Proximity, unbeaten in her five starts this year, had not made a move out of her third-place rut along the rail...
...stand it any longer." He shipped his priceless collection of music-manuscript copies to England and then followed them. Now Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back to work as a master mason in music scholarship, Adolf Hitler, he says, became "my greatest benefactor...
...follow the Marxist teaching," he urged, "must study our contemporary experience . . . incorporate it into day-by-day practical leadership . . . The war has forged new people, new personnel capable of pushing the work ahead." He advised all comrades: "Avoid getting into a rut, and stop living by old formulas...
Anyone interested in proving the theory can stand at the corner of Bow and Mt. Auburn and look down at the Toon quivering in its little rut...