Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...nation so far seemed to accept this plethora of prosperity and plenty with none of the qualms of conscience which had afflicted it during World War II. Nobody was demanding that men chop the cuffs off their pants, or that women make bandages and adopt a look of austerity. Advertisements for piecrust mix and plumbing plungers made no pretense at all that the product was being gotten out as a reward to "the boys" overseas. There had been no revival of such phrases as "The home front" and "Don't you know there...
...without a sense of tension and foreboding-or a sense that the U.S. was proceeding too leisurely to arm itself against the threat of a World War. But few seemed to see anything incongruous in the fact that Milton Berle was billed as Mr. Dynamite simply because he could make foolish grimaces, or that hundreds of thousands of vacationers were lounging on beaches...
...sure enough, there was something about Bangkok that made DeCarlo turn introspective before he had been in town 48 hours. It started simply enough: DeCarlo made his black-market deal, and set out with a shipmate to make a night of it. He picked up a native girl and they had some drinks. Then they ran into Gratz, the rundown American beachcomber, with his talk about the pull of the East...
Author Loughlin's first novel, Helix, was a highly original sea story about engine-room hands (TIME, June 9, 1947). A Private Stair sails into deeper fictional water and for most of the passage keeps way on. The writing is taut, perhaps too spare to make DeCarlo's sudden switch entirely credible, and sometimes there is a smart-alecky playing with words and dialogue. But Loughlin has the good novelist's knack of suggesting more than he says and keeping his story moving with an air of inevitability. He is one young writer who owes...
...Child Who Never Grew, by Pearl Buck. The simple and memorable story of Novelist Pearl Buck's effort to make a life for her mentally retarded child (TIME, July...