Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month-long run. Some crib notes were submitted attached to all manner of haberdashery and footwear (usually pasted on insteps). But first prize went to a crib note running on tiny rollers, all concealed in a matchbox equipped with apertures for covert reading. Second prize: an inch-square scrap of onionskin paper bearing complete summaries, in three colors of ink, of three subjects. Third prize: an innocuous-looking chunk of rock crystal, ostensibly a paperweight, actually, when viewed from the proper angle, a powerful magnifier of a series of chemical formulas...
...puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch of sky. In Author Böll's deftly understated handling, all that might be mawkishly sentimental in Andreas' goodbye to life develops instead the percussive pathos of Lear's grief-crazed cry over the body of his daughter, Cordelia. "Never, never, never...
...possibly as high as 60? an hour. Even if the Steelworkers get as much as 20? an hour, the union claims that it will cost the industry only an additional $4.00 per ton. While other costs are also climbing-iron ore is up 7.4% since July, railroad freight 7%, scrap iron 83.5%-the total increase still falls well short of the $12-to-$15per-ton increase the industry wants. Thus, while costs will eat up part of any price boost, the bulk of it will go to pay for added capacity. And it is here that the industry makes...
...taking place in Somaliland, a territory larger than Italy but with fewer people than Rome. When the British in World War II drove out the Italians who had ruled it since 1892, they found a backward, incredibly poor land populated chiefly by spear-carrying nomadic tribesmen. They seized every scrap of the country's machinery for reparations and tore up its only railroad...
Before any effective increase occurs, the U.S. will have to show itself willing to initiate significant measures to release the cramp in East-West commerce. The latest "relaxation" is nothing but a scrap thrown to clamoring critics in an effort to pacify them. Much more will have to be done before the Administration can pose as anxious to thaw frozen channels of trade...