Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These ten witheringly sarcastic stories come from another talented Southern lady whose work is highly unladylike. Still in her late twenties, and the product of a college writing class (State University of Iowa), Georgia's Flannery O'Connor has already learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing...
...bugs?" "All over the walls, praise be to God." "I'll take it." But twelve hours after his actual arrival (according to Thomas' plan for the book), the boy was to be arrested in the raw at a railway station-"a kind of Strip-Jack-Naked. He's parted with everything, or they've taken it." In the 82 slaphappy and possibly autobiographical pages Thomas finished, the kid slides from one loony scrape to another, encumbered much of the way with a Bass ale bottle that has unaccountably got stuck fast on his finger...
...keep a man awake beyond the point of exhaustion, while constantly pummeling him with questions, is to degrade him, to strip him of human dignity, to deprive him of the will to resist, to make him a pitiable creature mastered by a single desire-at all costs to be free of torment. Any member of this or any other court, to escape such anguish, would admit to almost any crime...
...eclipse will be visible only in a narrow strip of the earth's surface beginning in the Indian Ocean and extending east across Ceylon into the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands. The maximum totality will be seven minutes, seven and nine-tenths seconds, the longest since 717 A.D. Not until 2150 A.D. will another eclipse be that long, Sinton said...
...finished petroleum products, last year was able to produce 90% of the products at home, due largely to some $71 million invested by Caltex, Standard-Vacuum, Union Oil and Tide Water. By agreements signed with Armco International Corp., Japanese steelmen have been able to cut costs 5% and boost strip steel output by 90%. In the electronics industry, RCA's royalty of less than 2% on each TV set produced in Japan has saved the Japanese industry seven years and millions in research...