Word: sinews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short stories are fashioned more of nerves than sinew. In Back to the Sea, Alberto Moravia offers one of his sensually melancholy battles of the sexes, so arrestingly Moravian that it scarcely need have been signed. Maurice Richardson begins Way Out in the Continuum, a chillingly funny satire of the post-atomic-war age, with the sentence: "This is decapitated head No. 63, Universal Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale...
...steel, the basic sinew of war, the U.S. had a capacity of 100,500,000 tons a year (about 12% more than World War II's peak), and was expanding by 9,500,000 more tons...
Your analysis of the public's sober mood about Korea [TIME, Aug. 14] is all bone and sinew, no fat. What's more, after much traveling lately, I feel sure it is in essence accurate. I think I detect in our country a fine latent dignity and seriousness which I was frankly not so sure of a few months...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...