Word: partially
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...apathy extends to the youth-the sought-after darlings whom the Tito Reds woo with special treatment and propaganda. I went to a youth demonstration to celebrate the partial completion of dormitories for Belgrade's new University City on the Zemun Marshes. Thousands of teen-agers billed as students had worked here for months in "Voluntary Labor Brigades." With the major construction done (though floors and windows were not in), the volunteers had been summoned to a monster rally...
Brooks House allocations amounted to $1,187; the Salzburg Seminar received $1,072; and the Boston Community Fund got $1,034. Partial distribution of the remaining $4,100 will be made when term bill credits for written-in allocations are received. The remainder will be retained in the unallocated emergency fund...
Through most of 1950, sales of fiction lagged behind nonfiction. It was a reversal of the usual order, but a look at the novels provided at least a partial explanation. The Costains and the Yerbys had their moments, but not the gaudy ones of old, and even the Du Mauriers and the Cronins issued invitations to boredom. British Critic V. S. Pritchett feared that leisure had become so rare and expensive that creative writers no longer had a chance to do good work. But more than a lack of leisure was responsible for the famine: there was a lack...
This decision, however, is overruled by the larger number who would not allow appeasement, even partial appeasement. "Try to maintain a line at the 38th parallel," they say, "pour in as many men as we need to hold on." If we can not do this now they say, pull out and then go back in again, We cannot afford to lose face in the East, this school claims...