Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year 529, the civilization of Rome was a fainting glimmer. That year Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, established its abbey on Monte Cassino-a steady light, on a steep hill, which was ultimately to illuminate all Western Europe. In February 1944, seeking out a German observation post, U.S. bombers demolished the abbey, and put out the light...
...last week's revival did not inspire much of a whistling mood. Operettas have librettos, of course; and librettos are born old. And The Chocolate Soldier's, despite its descent - and mighty steep it is - from Shaw's Arms and the Man, is far from a blessing. But it need not be such a bore. Staged with style, spoofed with an air, its nose-tweaking of warriors and ear-pulling of the girls they left behind them could be pretty good fun. Instead, the current production has all the horsing, hamming and dismal vivacity of what...
...spectator adjusts itself to the somber light of human history, are seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden from them as well as from the spectator...
...spite of this show of discouragement, few seemed to think that the U.S. was in for another steep price rise all around. Wheat and hogs made the headlines. But there were plenty of reasons why commodities in general would not follow. Hogs had been going their own wild way for months (see chart). Some metal prices, due to the worldwide shortages, might well rise some more-and stay up. But food was something else again. Wheat was up because of 1) a shortage of freight cars and 2) Herbert Hoover's recommendation that food exports to Europe be stepped...
...Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to save their wornout conveyances. The Women's Chamber of Commerce called an "emergency" meeting. Mayor Lapham, who had already ordered ten specially powered buses, grunted: "Sentimentalists do not have to pay the bills...