Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last week stepped up its economic war on China. It forbade any American ship to call at any Red China port, and froze Red China funds in the U.S. or in U.S.-controlled territory. Earlier, the Department of Commerce had clamped down on trading with all Iron Curtain countries. It freshened up a blacklist of some 200 companies and individuals who have been sneaking goods into the Soviet orbit. The department said that it was also keeping a close watch on all exports to Switzerland, Spain and other way stations in the shipment of strategic goods from...
...troubles with censorship, as even censors could plainly see last week, is that anyone can get into...
...story of Lucien in politics is told in The Telegraph, part two of Lucien Leuwen, the unfinished "third masterpiece" of French Novelist Stendhal. With last spring's publication of part one, The Green Huntsman (TIME, June 26), Stendhal's story is now available in English for the first time...
...last the young careerist finds himself involved with a beautiful woman-only to realize that she is making love to him solely because she wants her husband to become a minister, and that his own father, who thinks it would be rather good for Lucien's career to have a socially prominent mistress, has been encouraging the whole scheme. To this depth Lucien's ideals cannot let him sink...
...Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg. The last chapters in the decline & fall of a novelist who had been the Jazz Age's darling; a novel largely modeled on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME...