Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion gross national product by 1960, but the U.S. economy's actual growth under Truman's successor has made that rosy forecast seem downright conservative. Last week, in a frankly political speech to a Republican rally in Chicago, President Dwight Eisenhower brandished some economic facts that might turn out to be bigger bipartisan news to the people of the U.S. than all the week's campaign speeches put together. In the third quarter of 1958, said Ike, gross national product climbed to an annual rate of $440 billion, and "a $500 billion economy is now clearly...
...year high of an estimated 76,145,600 (v. 74,879,146 in 1954). Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments that, in state after state, had turned the contests into down-to-the-wire horse races. The updated issues...
...hear just what might be expected of a Harvard football coach. He interpreted the administrative jargon about "good teacher" to mean that he was supposed to give men wanting to play football the fundamentals to do so, a lot of practice, and try to see if his team could turn in a good account of itself in competition...
...task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity were given the opportunity this fall to run regular varsity plays and not to mimic plays of the Crimson's opposition each week...
Just about everything that is important happens to the three sisters of the title. Living in a middle-class house in a provincial Russian city around the turn of the century, each of the sisters looks for reason, some pattern in her life--through love, work, or an escape to the heavenly city of Moscow. Each in her own way fails to find ultimate happiness, but they all learn that reasons are unimportant and that living itself is enough happiness...