Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar Chopin waltzes, preludes, and nocturnes, together with some of the less well-worn pieces--nearly two dozen works in all--are woven into the story of a man torn between love for a woman and love for country; and all are brilliantly played by Jose Iturhi...
...clothing and wait until midsummer, they might save themselves close to a billion dollars a year. Reason: prices will be lower. Last week, WPB and OPA finally decided to snap a checkrein on runaway textile prices. Shoppers agreed that it was high time. Since 1939 the volume of woven fabrics available to civilians had decreased 20%, but the nation's clothing bill had zoomed skyward from 1939's $5.8 billion to $11.4 billion last year...
...latter's analysis of four Jamesian novels in his book, "The Major Phase." In the light of Time magazine's recent, generally accepted comment ("James' stories are meant for slow reading. A little of them goes a long way. Condensed, mellow, with their felicitous phrases and generous perceptions woven unobtrusively into the slow, deliberate prose, they have a flavor that no other fiction possesses."), considerable interest has focussed on the ability of James and of the current producers to meet the drama's demands of immediate, direct response...
...plan had come with that inevitability of gradualness which is woven into British history. It had taken five years of war to speed up an unhurried trend toward socialism. (Characteristically, it was the Tories who achieved it.) Once more Britain had quietly evolved a major change in its national life because enough Britons wanted...
...such richly colorful material, woven into a narrative that is never schematic, and yet never a mere miscellaneous grab bag of historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...