Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projections. That is not as good as the 30% or so for 1976-but then nobody expected those gains to continue; last year's profits were rebounding from recession. The present level of profits still leaves many U.S. corporations awash in cash. That enables company treasurers happily to shun bank loans-too many of them angrily remember the stiff bank lending rates of 12% in 1974-and finance expansion internally...
Novelists are becoming steadily less audacious. Unlike their 19th century forebears, they rarely offer themselves as omniscient puppetmasters, privy to the thoughts and motives of an entire cast. Attuned to the jet hops of the screen-so the conventional reasoning goes-audiences will shun the long ocean cruises that fiction once traversed. Thus the fragments of 20th century life are all too often rendered in views, not visions...
...earthen pot lest other villagers see it. They prepare a menu consisting only of fish and vegetables because at one time it was dangerous for them to buy kosher meat for the Sabbath; now they consider mainstream Jews sinful because they eat meat on the seventh day. The Marranos shun all Saturday work, a telltale sign of their identity, but paradoxically, most of the men have not been circumcised because that could disclose their secret...
...prosperous Marrano housewife, but the previous one "said in church that the Jews should be hanged." The Marranos claim that when they did not attend Mass they were denounced to the secret police as suspected Communists. "My father was stoned in the streets," recalls another Marrano. The furtive believers shun photographers and almost never talk of their religion to outsiders. Suspicion, like fear, has become a way of life...
...Shun Lieu Commack...