Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often happens in the best-regulated societies, Great Britain is currently undergoing a spate of court cases over obscenity in books. Last week seven of the nation's bestselling authors (including Somerset Maugham, Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley) took recourse to that most British of responses: a joint letter of protest to the editor of the London Times. "It would be disastrous to English literature," they wrote, "if authors had to write under the shadow of the Old Bailey if they failed to produce works suitable for the teen-ager...
Barney Kessel (Contemporary LP). A top jazz guitarist comes out of West Coast TV and film studios to make his first featured album. Most of these selections are clean, agile and on the cool side, typical of the spate of jazz disks coming from the Coast...
...most accurate sketch was of the Dodge, with a flat hood and rear deck, high fender lines, and a wrap-around windshield with the window post slanting back, instead of being perpendicular as in G.M. cars. But there was no doubt that next year will bring the greatest spate of major restyling in postwar auto history: a total of nine completely revamped models (1954 total: three...
...Western Germany, dismay at the U.S. performance touched off a spate of statements urging direct negotiations with the Russians. In the German view, Dulles went to Geneva with both hands tied behind his back by Congress, and left looking like the small boy who takes the bat and ball home because he is not allowed to pitch. Wrote TIME'S Bonn correspondent: "The U.S. is Bonn's godfather; Bonn expects it to lead the infant Federal Republic out into the world. But daily the U.S. seems more lost itself...
...instance, the British endured a spate of low-grade idiots in the ranks during the Revolution and the War of 1812. We have it on cinema graphic authority that American spays had only to assume a bogus West End accent to gain admission to the most secret of English planning sessions...