Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always interesting, and filled with fascinating bits of information gleaned from a long lifetime of looking into all the various areas of human activity. His explanation of the "mystery" of the Russians, however valid, offers new points of view on a topic that is of deep interest today. The section of the book devoted to the Jews is likewise designed to provoke new insight into a subject deeply complicated and much obscured. And if these insight seem impossibly clear, they are, again, purposely...
...lighting equipment is barely adequate. As a result the director and his designer, Alfred Kaufman, were forced to stage a few scenes in such a manner that the furniture partially obscured the actors. But the set did have appropriately grubby appearance of a house in a poor section of New Orleans...
...Washington); the girls, Patricia, 10, and Julie, 8, were now old enough to look in briefly on that night's inaugural ball; the Nixons' baby sitter had complained that she had never seen a President, so he had arranged for her to have a seat in his section at the inauguration ceremonies. Then, prodded by questions, Dick Nixon began to talk of the business of being Vice President...
...chance came in a district where, only two weeks before, others had staked much and lost. The district, on Paris' Left Bank, includes a cross section of all France-shopkeepers, concierges, the Latin Quarter's students, Grenelle's workingmen. When the death of a Deputy forced a special election, every party accepted it as the first major referendum since last year's national election, and committed its full forces-all but Poujade, who asked his followers to boycott the election. It proved to be the most riotous campaign in 20 years. There were bombings, street fights...
...found a job cleaning fish underneath the Brook lyn Bridge, for $1 a day. After a while he managed to get himself "in hair" ? he worked in a wigworks that made "rats" and "transformations." By the time Lennie was born, Sam had moved to Boston's Allston section and was building a prosperous business of his own as a beauty-parlor supplier...