Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing is the hardest thing in the world to do." She makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school inflection provides just the right sophistication...
...longer apply; over the years the U.S. has made and learned new rules all its own. The test-and the proof that the U.S. had learned its lessons well-was the recession. It not only highlighted the changes in the economy, but proved beyond doubt that the U.S. could take a hard knock and come bouncing quickly back. In the new economy...
...Government no longer feels bound to buy its way out of recession with tax cuts and many-billioned programs of every type. In the new economy, built-in stabilizers automatically operate to take up the slack, keep income, and thus consumption, at high levels...
Employment Up, Prices Down. A problem for 1959 that may take longer to solve is unemployment, which will probably stay at around 4,125,000 during the winter months, then start decreasing toward 2,500,000, which is considered about minimum unemployment. "We'll pick them up all right," says Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague, "but it will take us most of 1959 to do it." Part of the reason is industry's rising productivity, which is expected to continue to rise smartly next year, and which in turn will hold down prices. Inflation...
...served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...