Word: steeper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair (A Room on the Route). William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway. The Steeper Cliff, David Davidson's novel of a search for the meaning of intellectual courage in postwar Germany, was the best fictional attempt to treat of the problems of peace...
...STEEPER CLIFF (340 pp.)-David Davidson-Random House...
...demanded at least that much attention. It had all the standard problems of any independent-the unequal struggle with networks for talent, sponsors and listeners-plus the competition of New York's ten other independents. And Manager Thackrey had made an uphill fight steeper by adopting a principle which most radiomen consider a contradiction in terms: "I want to make the station pay, and still make it do a real public service." But she also had advantages which few independent radiomen could match: practically unlimited cash and connections...
...corps commander, had sent his divisions driving through backbreaking country that was all gorges and razor-backed ridges and mountain peaks that prodded the clouds. One division had advanced only 1,000 yards in four weeks, lost and retook one hill four times. The world may never have seen steeper fighting...
...human intelligence and that steeper virtue, integrity, there is Hitler's immortal remark: "The greatest of spirits can be liquidated if its bearer is beaten to death with a rubber truncheon...