Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mudslinging is another man's honest examination of the issues. Launching Labor's manifesto, Britain Belongs to You, at a televised press conference, Gaitskell confirmed Tory predictions that Labor's campaign weapon would be "the envy tactic," although Gaitskell obviously did not use the term. The ordinary Briton may be better off these days, conceded the Labor manifesto, but "the contrast between the extremes of wealth and poverty is sharper now" than when the Conservatives took power eight years ago. To remedy this state of affairs -the existence of which foreign observers frankly doubt-the Labor manifesto...
...founded Luders Marine Construction Co., wiry, blond Bill Luders, 49, is one of the U.S.'s best sailors (at 16, he was 6-meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders got a bonus of an extra four hours' handicap. Instead of using Storm's normal headsails, he hoisted a gigantic genoa jib that was fully 34 ft. at the foot...
...head and replaced it with one that was more representational. It didn't work. This head is right for this figure." He adds defensively: "Some people have said I make the head unimportant. This is just not so. Because I think the head is the most important, I use the head to give scale to the rest of a figure. If one can give the human meaning of a head without using eyelashes, nostrils and lips, just reduce it to a simplicity-the angle at which it is poised to the neck, say-then by making it small...
...Dragon only suggests the measure of Poet Moore's true worth. She is mostly having fun, and so will most readers who admire a deft use of language, a faultless grip on verse technique, an underlying love for living things, in such playful lines...
...first season the Metropolitan District Commission ceded the use of the new Theatre to the Cambridge Drama Festival, which offered three productions over a period of nine and a half weeks. As it turned out--and quite accidentally--all three were by Shakespeare. Fortunately, Jacques Barzun's recent statement, "I agree with that small but articulate group of people who would rather not see Shakespeare acted"--shocking for a man of his staggering brilliance and perception--fell on deaf ears...