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...spun and dived and gained the line, To strand us--blue, and white...
...Europe's trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is more than ten times greater than that of the U.S. (see chart). Many Soviet citizens now eat spaghetti and breadsticks made in Italian-built factories, drive Fiat-designed autos called Zhigulis, and wear clothes made from fibers spun in a British-designed plant. Soon they will watch color television developed by France's Thomson Co. The West Germans plan to help build a $1 billion steel complex at Kursk, where the Wehrmacht, ironically, suffered defeat in the biggest tank battle of World War II. When West German...
...past, Connell has explored -and refined-two different kinds of narratives. Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge (1969) spun out a series of vignettes in the Midwestern lives of their protagonists; the accretions were devastating catalogues of anomie. In Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1963) and Points for a Compass Rose (1973), Connell shored fragments of history and reflection against our ruin, casting them in prose lines that rang with poetry...
Doko employs a management style that is characterized by self-spun homilies. Sample: "Act instead of thinking it over. Only action produces ideas." Doko's actions are expected to be in tune with the consensus of Keidanren's hierarchy. The federation's first resolution under his leadership called for a lifting of the selective price freeze that the government imposed during the energy crisis...
...that the American South is a monolith. It had all begun by 1861, the story goes. Since the firing on Fort Sumter, the secession of 11 states and the formation of the Confederacy, Southern men and women have worshipped different heroes, anchored their beginnings to different battles and spun their folklore around a different war for independence. Their history began not in the spirit of 1976, but in the intransigence of the 1860s; not in Massachusetts Bay, but deep in the Delta of Mississippi or the Piedmont of South Carolina; not in the cradle of liberty, but in the curse...