Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tangled Web. Underpinning the welfare state are well-watered grasslands that, by the latest count, feed 22,954,230 sheep and 7,305,462 cattle-roughly ten animals for every man, woman and child in the country.* Wool, meat and hides, making up some 75% of Uruguay's exports, keep a country that is notably poor in mineral endowment near the top of Latin America's per-capita-income list. To subsidize the urban welfare state, the Montevideo-dominated national government takes a cut on every pound of wool, overtaxes the ranchers, forces them to sell beef cheap...
...about to leave on a European vacation, leaving her children in the charge of a black "mammy." Then she learns that the trusted mammy has just strangled her own newborn baby and tossed it into a roadside ditch. Even in the stories where the meaning is caught in a web of nuance, there are. still revelations. A woman determinedly denies her love to her stepchild with the noble but misguided intent of preserving the child's love for his real mother; she ends by alienating the child from both. Enemies, a study of the egoism of old age, suggests...
Last week some Virginia legislators expressed private doubts as to whether the legal web they have spun will hold up for long. But if these bills fail, Virginia is quite ready to think up others. "Virginians," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "are deliberate, even slow, in coming to drastic measures to protect their rights under the federal constitution. But when they do, they are in for the duration...
...most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed...
...Squeeze. Nasser was also kept busy fending off the fine web that the British and French have begun to weave around his economy. The most immediately threatening web was that binding key Suez Canal technicians to the old Frenchrun company. After Nasser said yes to Menzies, the French government announced that the company would not pull out its foreign pilots until the talks were over. "But," added a Foreign Ministry spokesman, "we cannot expect them to stay indefinitely...