Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the perverseness of the economy. Removal of controls, in some cases, failed to increase production, for management or labor sometimes find it profitable not to produce more. Thus shortages have continued in certain lines. For the nation as a whole, however, productive capacity increased, but indefatigably like a shadow, larger incomes and greater demand followed, continuing the overall shortage of goods and the inflationary trend. Finally, a delayed but inevitable cost of the War-European chaos and need-hit our partially reached recovery...
...stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
With typical Gidean restraint, he suggests his fondness for Arab boys, his rapturous admiration for statues of the male form, his habit of following strangers who attract him ("I go out a bit toward evening and shadow a couple of fellows who intrigue me"). Nothing, it seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...
Miguel de Cervantes is one of those writers doomed to live in the shadow of great characters that they created. Most people know some of the adventures of Don Quixote. Few know much about his creator. This biography (written for the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' birth) is one of the few thorough lives of Cervantes in English. Biographer Bell is an Englishman who lives in British Columbia, An Iberic scholar, he has been assistant librarian of the British Museum and editor of The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse...
...sign came, strangely enough, from John Lewis' soft-coal miners, who had gotten the best contract in their history under the shadow of the new law. They were now digging nearly as much coal in a 40-hour week (12.1 million tons) as they had before in 54 hours (12.5 million). Another note of cooperation came from A.F.L.'s David Dubinsky. who ignored the tactics of other A.F.L. and C.I.O. strategists and advised his International Ladies' Garment Workers locals to continue writing no-strike clauses into their contracts...