Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shade More Southern...
...travel would have revealed that Susquehanna lies southwest of Wilmington, across the frontier of Delaware, in a state that at first glance would appear to be Maryland. This state (whose name escapes me) borders on Delaware for some 100 miles ... In character, speech, and appetites, its inhabitants are a shade more southern than Delaware's, which doubtless accounts for the differences your reviewer noted between my Barons and Delaware's Du Ponts...
...Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell's dissection of what a U.S. Communist writer is up against when he tries to shade the party line, comes as close as anything in recent fiction to making homegrown intellectual Reds human in their fears, fallacies and betrayals...
Whip-Cracker. Almond (pronounced All-mond) is a whip-cracking officer. He never compromises with discipline, drives himself hard and his subordinates only a shade less hard. To some he seems an insufferable martinet. Those who know him best say his professional manner, at times as tough as armor plate, is only the protective covering for a courtly, convivial, even sentimental off-duty personality...
This average was still a shade below its mid-June-and bull market-high of 228.38. But some stock averages with a wider cross section of the market (e.g., the New York Times index of 50 combined stocks) had already broken through their June peaks and reached the highest levels since 1931. The conviction that victory was closer also brought a shift in trading psychology. The favorites last week were the television, motor and other "peace" shares, hardest hit by scare selling at the outbreak...