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...miniature ships built, so that his mulata mistress could ease her nostalgia for the sea without making the three-week muleback trip to Rio. By the time Juscelino Kubitschek was born, Sept. 12, 1901, the synthetic sea had long since vanished, along with the diamonds, and hillside Diamantina had shrunk into an uneventful, cobble-streeted town with a population of less than...
...After a stroke "she lay speechless and staring at the ceiling for days; sometimes making inarticulate sounds . . . giving no reply either by sign or by gesture, or in her unwinking eyes." Dickens describes her recovery, the change in her temperament-and the second stroke that left her "crooked and shrunk up" and led to her death. Says Dr. Brain admiringly: "Dickens shows that he knows that loss of speech is associated with paralysis of the right side of the body and that in such cases there may also be agraphia [inability to write...
...spending, slated for a $500 million rise to $34.5 billion, then another $1 billion rise in fiscal 1957. For years, U.S. defense chiefs worried that the nation might not be able-or willing-to carry the necessary burden. But as the gross national product has increased, the burden has shrunk until it is less than 10% of the gross U.S. output, a load that has proved easy to carry...
During Gainza Paz's exile, the once-great newspaper founded by his grandfather in 1869 had shrunk from 40 pages to eight, from a circulation of 380,000 to 250,000, from a proud independent paper to a sordid Peronista puff sheet. Since the paper's seizure, loyal staffers had turned to such odd jobs as driving trucks, selling wine, refrigerators and auto parts. Fifteen had spent six months to two years in Perón's jails on charges of plotting revolutions. Many second-and third-generation Prensa employees would meet daily on streetcorners...
...poetic estate is the result of poetry's effect on its audience, and this audience has shrunk to a small circle of people usually associated with universities Muir explained. The public at large, he claimed, merely goes its way, generally without realizing what it has lost...