Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voila, un Miracle! Mendes accomplished this with a mixture of nerve, showmanship and canny political maneuver. To win the "massive majority" he desired for the London agreement, he put Socialists in a position where they risked scrapping him and his economic program, which the Socialists favor, if they tried to scrap the London proposals. Mendes drove his point home by rushing through a 6.5% bonus for industrial workers and low-ranking bureaucrats, and by promising another raise next April-if his government is still in power. The Socialist leaders, he reasoned, would hardly dare bring down a government that promised...
...Just as the Pax Britannica made an end to tribal warfare in Africa, so our world could roll up its Iron Curtain and use it for scrap . . . This might not be so bad. But we would have been 'discovered' and colonized...
...scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
...produced his fourth novel and can now safely be placed with that group of contemporary novelists who might be called Circumstantialists. The Circumstantialist, like the pack rat, cannot bear to throw anything away. Meticulously, he collects and records every circumstance of his characters' lives. Turning over every last scrap of detail, he seems to hope desperately that somewhere he and the reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath the litter of facts. Reunion concerns the get-together, eight years after, of eight survivors of a battle-scarred company. In the cast: the rising young lawyer with...
...bantamweight championship of the world. Early in the fight, a right cross broke Chamroen's nose and splattered blood all over the ring; for 15 rounds both men whaled away at each other furiously. Chamroen was beaten on points. By western standards it was a lively scrap, but to Thais it looked like a mild family argument...