Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectually interesting and satisfying. And there is always the chance that something may come of it--like the metal image of the mathematical concept of a mobius strip that Batteau built "for the heck of it," and which is currently being seriously studied for its properties. It may shed some light on the effects of chromosome aberrations in genes...
...intelligent and the dull, the frugal and the improvident." Became Attorney General almost the day he was elected to the federal Parliament and by 1939 was Prime Minister, taking Australia into the war at Britain's side. But when the Laborites forced him out in 1941, Australians shed no tears. "The trouble with Bob Menzies," said one politician, "is that he is not clever enough to hide his cleverness." Eight long years in opposition mellowed him. Coming back in 1949 to win four elections in six years, he has been Prime Minister longer than anyone in Australian history...
...increase reflects a basic shift in the American outlook. Even churches, traditionally shy of debt, have taken advantage of easy credit and heavy collection plates. Shucking off the social stigma that once was associated with debt, most U.S. consumers have also shed their economic qualms about pledging future earnings to enrich the present...
...loathe each other. At this point the patient begins to look "old, hard, spiteful and evil" and uses every instrument in her power short of tears to establish dominion over the analyst. (True to the medieval belief that witches cannot weep, Stein has never seen the loathsome woman shed a tear.) Alternately sadistic and seductive, Dr. Stein's hag patients sometimes invited him to manhandle them, and sometimes circled his chair in "increasingly narrow circles," reminiscent of the legendary tracks dancing hags described on the grass. One disturbing result, Dr. Stein found, was that the hags began to occupy...
...Natalia Solario (nee Ellen Harden) had been seduced by her stepfather. Her mother died of heartbreak as a consequence; her brother Eugene, after shooting and nearly killing his stepfather, had been shipped off by the family to South America. Natalia herself, swiftly married off to an obliging nobleman, had shed her spouse before coming to Como for the 1906 season...