Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking were in major retreats at home. In both cases the battle was over agriculture-that individualistic and capricious pursuit that has defied Communist planners from the beginning. Moscow proposed to toughen up on the peasantry. Peking confessed to moving too fast in thrusting thousands of peasants into barrack communes...
...Barrack Talk. At 60 Ludwig Erhard's plump cheeks fairly glisten with the new German look of wellbeing. But nine years ago he was to be found, in frazzled pepper-and-salt suit and dirty shirt, in a little hole-in-the-wall office in flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers...
...system of teaching poets is simple. "We believe that if you begin with a person who has talent, you can make a better poet faster by exposing him to real criticism and putting him in contact with a community of poets." After a rugged session in the converted barren barrack that houses the workshop, a few students have felt like quitting. But most recognize the need for criticism. "You can't go on showing your poems to your Uncle Louis all your life," shrugs Phil Levine, 29, who has cracked the Chicago Review. Engle's blunt teaching methods...
...frighten their children, Cambridge mothers warn that the University will erect next door a monstrous barrack-like structure, devoid of Georgian dignity, a sore on the body collegiate, and refuge for ragged scholarship boys...
...paid out on Monday, not a dog soljer no more," exults a barrack-room ballad in From Here to Eternity. But a few days later, his mustering-out pay gone, his new-found freedom turned sour, the pre-Pearl Harbor infantryman in James Jones's novel surrenders to The Re-Enlistment Blues and signs...