Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the still missing paintings are, I feel sure, tucked away in the slum dwellings around the Führerbau...
There were soggy spots, he said, almost everywhere his economic advisers poked their fingers. Employment was still high (59.6 million), but unemployment was rising (to 3.8 million in June). Production was off 13% from last fall's peak. Wholesale prices had dropped 9% since last August; business profits were down 13%, and farm income was 8% under the first half...
...jury room, tempers grew short. The jury was locked up for the night and returned still undecided. Twice, the foreman reported that they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...
Fifteen years later the House of Lords hesitantly passed a bill which merely raised the minimum age for climbing-boys to ten. It was 1840 before climbing-boys were legally abolished, and the law was still full of holes a small boy could get through. In 1864, under the sponsorship of the last, great champion of the climbing-boys, Lord Shaftesbury, the regulations were tightened, and in 1875 the practice was finally broken-67 years after Britain had abolished Negro slavery...
...this year, but few that offer even a sizable fraction of the plain reading pleasure to be found in the chrestomathy (i.e., selection of passages-chrestos, useful; mathein, to learn). Even now, when many of the earlier heresies of the Sage of Baltimore have faded to archaic jeerings, he still has the power to annoy and sometimes to infuriate. With it he also has the talent to make a reader admire the technique of the Mencken flaying process even as his sympathy goes out to the victim...