Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble began when Strauss, on his way to an appointment with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, decided to use a short cut-a small, one-way alley officially reserved for der Alte himself but informally open to any of his ministers. When Bonn Traffic Officer Siegfried Hahlbohm, 24, failed to give Strauss's car an immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan...
...short, things are still grim compared to the West, but compared to Russia itself, they are better than they have ever been. And now that their elementary material wants are fairly well satisfied, many Russians are demanding improvement in other fields-they want more freedom. They want information, they want to travel abroad, they want the right to go to church if they choose and to discuss political matters without looking over their shoulders. They want to be told the truth about their government and its operations...
...future, Ruiz Cortines passed on one short rule to guide his successors: "What is necessary must be made possible." Then he added an important corollary: "But every demand that ignores reality deserves oblivion...
...Alstyne, Noel & Co., of which Marcus is a partner, was reported to have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account and its customers'. The buying had not only sent up the price but had put Marcus and associates in a strong position to squeeze the short sellers, who, knowing the actual value of Artloom from its balance sheet, had sold 35,900 shares of stock short, now had to pay high to cover their sales. (Delighted at the high price, four veteran officials up to last report had unloaded more than 11,000 shares...
...children hide pennies from their aunt until they have saved enough to buy a pair of brushes and three cans of shoe polish. For a short while they prosper, but with the coming of the rains their customers lose interest in shoeshines. Close to starvation, the boy and his sister are accidentally separated; from there the film wanders to an ending that, for all its melodramatic sentimentality, fits perfectly into the picture's curious blend of gutter reality and fairy-tale dreaminess...