Word: woven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resignation satisfied only two-thirds of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. clean up or get out orders. The house was still not clean: Klenert, in resigning, had woven an agreement for $104,000 in severance pay as a quid pro quo for leaving quickly. But at week's end that too was settled. The union's executive board voted to give Klenert the skid without a quid...
...next day he tries to sell the saddle cinches his wife has woven; the patron will not buy. He tries to sell his turkey; the patron throws the bird out the door. Desperate, man and wife sit down by the roadside, and he tells her he must go away. Somewhere there must be work to do-or things to steal. In silence she suckles the child. His face softens. The spring of life is flowing still...
...such changes, which may be woven into the basic fabric of U.S. political life, the 85th Congress, First Session, may be remembered longer than for its Pushmi-Pullyu legislative record...
...whole show is an artificial fantasy woven around a master thief and his two young apprentices who get themselves invited to the summer estate of a wealthy British couple and plan to rob the latter of their valuables and their nieces. An example of the frivolous boulevardier school of writing, the play harks back in form and style to the tradition of the commedia dell' arte, of Moliere and of Marivaux...
...year is one written (in French) by a Russian who can barely remember his own country. The refugee is not a good witness of the land he loved and lost; an exception is Henri Troyat. Although he has lived in France since he was nine, he has woven-out of legend, memory, research and love-a valedictory tale of Russia's "former people," whose liquidation began in November 1917. The title evokes Stendhal's The Red and the Black, but this tale of class war and peace more nearly recalls the scope and ambition (if not the genius...