Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MOMENT BEFORE THE RAIN, by Elizabeth Enright (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), is a collection of 18 short stories with a sharply etched image on nearly every page. A woman emerges from childbirth feeling "like a huge sea shell washed up by the highest wave, empty but still ringing from the tides." There are trees hung with grey moss "like . . . the wigs of old witches" and an old-fashioned store that is full of "ribbon, cloth and clean middle-aged ladies: dry goods, indeed." The shining words of this gifted writer often appear on obvious and outsized mountings. The last...
...policy-quick ratification of the Paris accords for German rearmament, but a new effort immediately thereafter for talks with Russia. Domestically, he avoided Mendès' "psychological shock," promised a conservative program of increasing production, cutting prices, and raising wages slightly. On what one newspaper called "a wave of lassitude," the Assembly approved by a resounding 369 to 210, with only the Communists and Socialists opposed...
...busy automakers sent a wave of prosperity glimmering through many an allied industry, e.g., steel, rubber. On a wave of orders from Detroit, Bethlehem Steel's fourth-quarter profits rose 20% above 1953, to $48,383,317, and Republic Steel Corp.'s earnings for the comparable period went up 27%, to $17,781,218. Goodyear's final-quarter earnings reached $16,256.508 (v. $14,001,706 in 1953); Goodrich's hit $11,444,008, up more than $2,000,000 from the year before. Du Pont's fourth-quarter earnings doubled, to $2.59 a share...
...handful of oils. She decided to make a virtue of the museum's poverty. Treating the museum primarily as an exhibition center, she filled the empty walls with more than 100 shows a year, kept up the busy pace until museumgoers were deluged with modern art. When a wave of enthusiasm for Mexican painting started after Diego Rivera painted his murals for the San Francisco Stock Exchange, Director Morley obtained Rivera's preliminary designs for the murals to start what is today an outstanding U.S. collection of modern Mexican and South American painting...
Latitude. In Chicago, after he tripped the burglar alarm on the safe of a currency exchange, Burglar Clarence Phoenix, 43, worked on complacently while he listened to approaching squad cars on his short-wave radio, was caught redhanded, explained sadly: "I thought I was in the next block...