Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Department-store sales across the U.S. were off 7% for the latest week compared with the same week last year. ¶ Shipments of major appliances slipped to the year's lowest point in October. Factory sales of refrigerators were 29% below last year, washing machines 30% below...
Prices, which have been slowly edging up, have taken a sudden jump. The Labor Department reported last week that its cost-of-living index rose nearly half a point to 127.3 of the 1947-49 average-the biggest monthly jump since April, and the ninth rise in the past ten months. The rise took place not only in the cost of such non-durables as food, transportation, personal and medical care and clothing but -for the first time in 1960-in durable commodities as well...
...London house. Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between Faith and Jacques could be a coarse joke. But British Novelist Tom Kaye omits four-letter words; he is celebrating a four-letter god, Eros, the deity he believes makes...
While keeping his private zoo, Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe: "She was sleek, sinuous, and svelte, and reminded me of a creamy-skinned Parisienne belle-amie clad in nothing more than two pairs of black silk stockings...
...loneliness a housebred man feels during the first night's camp, and then, days later, of the quick resentment stirred by the intrusion of another human being. During the stillnesses, the narrative wanders to the old tales of what Graves calls "the good and bad and beside-the-point" of Brazos history. He tells of one settler, John Davis, who built the first floorboards in any cabin in the Palo Pinto country, and who, when his bride died in childbirth, tore up the floor to make a coffin...