Word: brink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the big, black voice belongs to a white, 30-year-old Los Angeles housewife (three children) named Barbara Dane. Back at The Limelight in her home town Los Angeles last week, after her first crack at the East Coast (The Den in Manhattan), she stood on the brink of the big time, one of the few white blues singers who ever belonged there. Ahead of her were further club dates in Chicago, San Francisco and a return to New York, as well as an LP for Dot. Said Record Executive Al Levitt, in what is only a slight...
...Kremlin's NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV : THE American voters have shown they desire peace. They have condemned the Dulles policy of positions of strength, which is supported by Mr. Eisenhower. We hope the Democrats will change the foreign policy of the U.S. away from the brink of war. They should construct their policy with due regard for the existence of the Socialist camp. We want peaceful coexistence...
...razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy-Matsu crisis "is not such a case...
...Alsop is not happy. He is incorrigibly gloomy, an inveterate prophet of perdition, forever firing literate messages of despair at what he deems to be a complacent multitude of 35 million readers. His columns bong with death-knell words and phrases: "hair-raising," "chaos," "crisis," "the slippery brink of disaster," "in these dark times," "the edge of the abyss." Should hope well feebly in his breast, he is inclined to stifle it: "It is still too early to say that the worst result is already inevitable...
...only thing a Graham Greene hero can be sure of is that, morally speaking, he will not get something for nothing. In such superb serious novels as The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter, sin leads the man up to the brink of damnation, but there the moral bargain is struck, and in exchange for inner pain and penance he gets at least a peek at the way to salvation. Greene likes to separate these serious novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear...