Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the long-range results of the handshaking, the oratorical sparring, the wide-ranging travels, it seemed likely that the first, short-range result would be a trip by Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S. "On balance," said Nixon in a press conference just before leaving Moscow for Warsaw, "I believe that some time Mr. Khrushchev should be invited to come to the U.S." Khrushchev, he said, "still has some very real misconceptions regarding both our policy and the attitude of our people. A trip would serve to reduce and to remove these misconceptions...
Vocally he is best when he has a short, forceful phrase to deliver. After murdering Duncan, he is told by Lady Macbeth to return to smear the grooms with blood; he strikes to the heart when he cries "I'll go no more!" and, shortly after, "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" And on witnessing the Weird Sisters' parade of apparitions, he makes the most of that horrible, anguished shout, "But no more sights...
...could solve all our financial problems if we had no featherbedding." One big reason for the high cost of U.S. houses is that carpenters resist using prefabricated panels, painters resist automatic sprayers (sometimes by demanding double wages), and bricklayers and plasterers sometimes set minuscule production quotas. From the job-short 1930s to 1956, a University of Michigan study found, the efficiency of U.S. construction workers dropped 10% to 20%. Truck drivers often draw eight hours' pay for a 5½-hour trip, simply because the trip once took eight hours. Grace Line needs only ten men on a conveyor...
When it started its highly touted trade offensive short months ago, Peking lured Western businessmen with offers of $7 violins. $23 sewing machines, $14 bicycles, promised to deliver nails, newsprint and electric motors at prices far below Japanese goods. But haste to gather foreign exchange to cover a huge trade deficit with Russia-and to do what it could to damage non-Communist competitors-led Red China to overstep itself. Its rickety economy suffered from primitive production methods, an overburdened transportation system, and an anarchic planning system that put untrained workers on industrial machines and knowledgeable technicians in mines...
...bluest blade of them all is Lee Prince, who is merely rich, charming as a puppy, the handsomest man in the Ivy League, a handy athlete, hard drinker, scholar, and an author with a collection of short stories to his credit before he attains his majority. When he takes his girl friend to Bermuda (this at 17 or so), he does not buy the island, but, next best, he rents a taxi for the entire stay and wins a samba tournament. ''They were something!'' an onlooker reports breathlessly. "She always wore blue, and Lee always wore...