Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides...
...morning last week, a truck loaded with blue-shirted toughs from the Freie Deutsche Jugend (the Communist youth organization) rolled through a tiny hamlet near Dresden in Germany's Russian zone. As it ground to a stop, the blue shirts piled out shouting: "Farmer Fritz Merkel is a doppelzüngiger Reaktionär (two-timing reactionary)." Two trucks that followed disgorged half-frightened, vodka-drunk workers. On Communist orders, they rushed out to Fritz merkel's farm, smashed and scattered farm tools, opened chicken coops and rabbit hutches. some of them broke down the heavy door...
Making a distinction between essential and non-essential liberties, Friedmann said that there was a wide middle ground of dispute, but that the ownership of water power and transportation facilities both fell into the category of non-essential liberties...
Stubbornly shunning momentary poetic fashions, whether proletarian or metaphysical, he has kept on writing in Williams-style: hard little poems that observe with precision how a housewife looks in the morning, or how The green-blue ground is ruled with silver lines to say the sun is shining...
...Lipton, unabashed, regained lost ground a decade later with an anonymous donation of $125,000 to the Princess of Wales's fund for the poor of London. "It was the most important single act in his whole life," for when Lipton permitted the release of his name, he immediately became red-hot news on both sides of the Atlantic, won a knighthood from Victoria, and made a friend of Heir Apparent Prince Edward. With one shrewdly timed piece of generosity, "the millionaire who two years before was dining every night at home had become a part of international society...