Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BREAK OF $260 million for small businessmen has been approved by House, is expected to pass Senate. Small businessmen may take 20% first-year depreciation on first $10,000 worth of investment in new equipment, will get more liberal tax reductions on business losses...
Thanks to Federal Deposit Insurance, 95% of the depositors, those with less than $10,000 in their accounts will be repaid in full. The rest must take their dubious chances, including the town of Edgewater, which had $68,000 in the bank...
...first glance, France's acclaimed Nathalie Sarraute (56) writes like a woman who has lost her novelist's wits. Her characters are anonymous, shadowlike creatures who seem to take turns living first in feverish madness, then in tiresome mediocrity. They know each other, but what binds them together is neither friendship nor love but a mixture of sickly attraction and grisly revulsion. Jean Paul Sartre, contributing an enthusiastic forward, explains: "If we take a look at what goes on inside people, we glimpse a moiling of flabby, many-tentacled evasions . . . Roll away the stone of the commonplace...
...been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when his wife comes home from work and his son from school, there is a moving confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings...
...Charles Montfior, master of the Restaurant Chez Pavan, is in love with gentle Liane, mistress of the hotel's flower pots. But apart from a bit of boudoir athletics that no true Frenchman would take seriously, he never gets his girl. The trouble is, he cannot concentrate. He can never quite get his mind off Vashni, an old sweetheart with the heat of youthful summers "always close about her, like an extra fragrance, that of a blossom crisping in the sun, which the kiss found under the heavy gold anklets that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most...