Word: strays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, one can't do it par excellence on every occasion. What hurts is that the best of Shimizu's work is weakened by the same deficiency. The poetic gift, is at a premium these days. It would be a shame to see Shimizu's very real talents stray along a path of lesser resistance...
...year of uncertain passing, Keohane has been a reliable receiver, his interception of a stray Dartmouth pass set up the winning touchdown for the varsity's major victory of the season...
...neat, severely cheerful architecture of the currently approved mode, but perhaps its negative aspects ought to be more noticed. In such buildings one lives in style, but it is an edgy and uncomfortable sort of style. The Japanese maple in the courtyard looks as forlorn as a stray kitten at a board meeting. The 160 girl inhabitants occupy facing wings across the courtyard, with picture windows looking on each other's picture windows. Yellow curtains, which let in too much sun, are compulsory. The girls keep opening their windows, which throws the air conditioning out of whack, so that...
Giant Unleashed. But the delegates from 68 nations, comprising a Who's Who of international banking and finance, had only to stray a few steps beyond this facade to see nagging reminders of that other India-the India of bullock-drawn carts, and hovels and beggars, the teeming, tumultuous India of grinding poverty that has become the Bank's biggest customer. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru warned the delegates on opening day: "The changes of the last few years have unleashed a giant. Asia does not want to continue as a starving continent living...
...joys of life as a simple farmer. "I never," he drawled, "want to go back to the city." Winnie, amiably noncommittal about his brother's try for New York Governor ("Most of my Democratic friends think Nelson has a real chance"), slyly dashed, for the time being, any stray ideas that he too might have political hankerings: "The state constitution requires that a man be a resident of Arkansas for seven years before he is eligible to run for Governor. I've only lived there five years...