Word: lit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deliberate slowdowns: lit. "call cautious," an old Scottish phrase introduced into British labor parlance by Clydeside shipworkers...
...lit out for Spain to fight the fascists, but never got there. By the time she reached Paris her anemia was so serious that she had to go to bed. She whiled away a long convalescence by taking up art. Soon she became infatuated with the 1900s, combed the bookstalls for period prints to paint from. When the Nazis arrived and put her in Vittel concentration camp, she had achieved her first goal: simple escape pictures that almost anyone could escape into...
...going fine. "Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western. Ike grinned as he lit a cigaret...
...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...
...times to start a literary magazine in Britain, Cyril Connolly picked December 1939. Europe's lights were blinking out, and England was in for it, when he lit his brave little cultural candle. He called it Horizon, and got a millionaire milkman's son to foot the bills...