Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short book published only a month ago, yet already enjoying the worldly success of a third printing, contains this unworldly advice...
Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...
Time to Sit. Up & down Europe there were variations of the Birmingham theme. London's Daily Mail shuddered to think what Britain would be like without ECAid: "Bread, cake and pastry supplies cut to half of what they are now. Butter, cheese and sugar rations down by one-third. No cotton goods in the shops. Footwear supplies drastically cut. Cigarette and tobacco supplies cut by 75%. New housing programs down by half . . . Private motoring cut ... to 40 miles a month or less...
...dream of hemispheric influence and prestige. Two years ago, Peronista pesos and propaganda were potent in many parts of Latin America. Last week, with Argentina virtually broke, the grandiose hope that Peronismo could be exported, and that Argentina might lead other nations to a cozy "third position" between the U.S. and Russia, had gone glimmering. Never too much liked by her poorer neighbors, now blamed for highhandedness and unfulfilled promises, Argentina found herself without a real friend in South America...
...program was Juilliard President William Schuman's Symphony for Strings. Riviera critics, hearing it for the first time, found it "purely scientific music," but noted that "among a sea of dissonances there are hidden some real beauties." Then they were assaulted by Oklahoma-born Roy Harris' Third Symphony; its abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause. Not so the critics. Wrote one: "Maybe...