Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This total exposure of genteel lust is an invitation from Mr. Noel Coward to step into his parlor. Once enmeshed in that strategically appointed web, the spectator is enticed by sheer wit to rest his repressions as the master's charming child-adults parade their riotously adulterous lives. The Blithe Spirit Private Lives formula is only slightly varied, but the cracks are fresh and strictly bon ton. Here are no new ideas, no thought, no stimulation--unless concurrent mistresses is your idea of a good time. Dear Noel's world, artfully constructed of gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains...
...Special Relativity (1905) and the explosion of the first atomic bomb (1945), science had a glorious period never equaled before. On dozens of fronts it swept ahead. From laboratories and observatories, from scholars' quiet studies in rapid succession came startling discoveries, most of them wrapped in an opaque web of higher mathematics...
...main point: let the Big Three meet again, talk over all their differences, re-establish a basis of unity, and brush away the "web of fear" which, he said, shrouds the U.S., Britain, the U.S.S.R. alike...
...what a tangled web we weave...
...been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What businessmen said about this privately was often unprintable. They did not want to be led from war to peace; they wanted to pick up the ball...