Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advised Carolinians to relax. The dead-accurate forecast saved untold time, effort and money, and to meteorologists, it was one more bit of evidence of how far their inexact science has advanced. In 1935 the Weather Bureau duly warned that a hurricane was approaching the Florida Keys. It could say no more. The hurricane proved the most violent in U.S. records, and killed more than 400 people...
...wheel; holes must be found beneath it to show that snakes have lived there. When the tree is carefully cut down, selected carpenters carve the three images. A priest-his eyes blindfolded, his hands covered with cloth-transfers from the old idol to the new its essential mystery; some say it is a box of quicksilver, some that it is bones from Vishnu himself...
...tones, basing it heavily on the state of the economy and management's "complete conviction as to the merit in the public interest." In reply, Dave McDonald attacked management's position as "a mock crusade against inflation," called its whole stance one of "strikebrinkism." Said McDonald: "They say to the union: Surrender unconditionally, and then we will dictate our terms for your acceptance...
Give & Take. A sinewy (6 ft., 175 Ibs.), hard-muscled man with a slightly bulbous nose and brown hair etched with grey, Blough had not only devised the industry's new policy but would have the most say in whatever settlement the steel industry would make. He is no rough-and-tumble, up-from-the-mill steelman but a lawyer who got into steel via a Wall Street firm, thoroughly learned the business by hard-slogging homework...
...roughneck buddies from the time they pass puberty (timidly, as if it were a haunted house at midnight) beyond the point at which Duluoz leaves Lowell, Mass., as Kerouac did, to play football for Columbia. Both books are written in the author's customary form, which is to say, utter formlessness. But while the disjointed episodes of Doctor Sax added up-after a number of sizable subtractions-to a vivid picture of mill-town childhood, the gush of recollection in Maggie Cassidy soon becomes just one undammed thing after another...