Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mushroom-picking expeditions and visits to the banya, the traditional Russian bathhouse built in czarist times and still found in many districts. It may or may not be kulturnost, but a visit to the banya's steam rooms, barbers and masseurs is a ritual that can take half a day and restore the soul...
...Take an indulgent farm policy, enhance it with advanced agricultural technology, cushion it with protective tariffs, and the guaranteed result is that old embarrassment, commodity surpluses. Once uniquely American, the farm glut has recently become international...
Greyhound and General argued over who was going to rule it, but the antagonists quickly realized that the kingdom was big enough for both of them. They called a meeting and asked Billy to abdicate. When he refused, they threatened to take him before the high judges. Rather than risk a fight that he was likely to lose anyway, Billy-still a prince in name and by no means a pauper-gave up his throne last week. After his abdication, the Trustbusters said that they would nonetheless try to stop General from taking over the empire. But Prince was gone...
...also, the stock figure of the schlemiel supplies no answer. Like all characters programmed for one response-the sobbing laugh-he provides a pattern but finally locks his author into it. Let other Jewish American novelists take warning: even with Malamud's deeper variations, the schlemiel has begun to take on the faded look of pseudo folklore...
...Crimson dropped their third game in five league starts last Tuesday when they lost to Brown in the ninth inning, 8-7. Coach Loyal Park continually had predicted that any team with only two losses could take the championship but the third blow was fatal...