Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convoy plowed westward deep into the Bismarck Sea before Kenney struck. High above the convoy, Fortresses first laid a closely woven pattern of bombs. A 6,000-ton Jap cargo ship broke in half. A 10,000-tonner, hit five times, went up in flames. Another cargo ship caught fire. Twice again that day, Fortresses and Liberators returned to the attack, shot down five defending Zeros...
Conspicuous as a missing front tooth is the gap in U.S. biography caused by the lack of a definitive life of Thomas Jefferson.* This book represents an attempt to span the gap with a kind of footbridge woven from the cables of Jefferson's own thought. Says the author, University of Virginia's young, Maine-born historian Bernard Mayo: "This [is the] story of Thomas Jefferson, told in his own words." Those who begin by testing Author Mayo's footbridge warily, wishing for a more orthodox structure, will soon come to respect his biographical engineering...
...large part of the world which reads books, the immense world which functions behind the high woven wire fences of U.S. industry is almost as cryptic as the canals on Mars. First-Novelist Edward J. Nichols makes that world so lucid, so human, so interesting, that Sinclair Lewis' accolade seems none too generous: "I don't know any other novel that gets so deeply into this new and battling way of living that we call Industrialism...
...different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal twist without destroying the musical continuity. When...
...farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...