Word: shortly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...older writer, by the end of his life, had managed to include almost every kind of writing, journalistic and non-journalistic, in his list of accomplishments. He reviewed restaurants; covered boxing matches, great and small; witnessed D-Day and the liberation of Paris as a war correspondent; cranked out short story collections and novellas; and critiqued the state of American journalism in his "Wayward Press" column for years. One of the most prolific and versatile writers of the century, Liebling died frustrated, having failed to write a Great American Novel, a ghost he pursued all his life. He wanted...
...then there is majesty, which is composed of pride and perfection and all of the things above and even more. It is the behavior of a President in a manner that reflects the size, wealth and meaning of the nation. Wherever John Kennedy flew in his short years in the presidency, there was a sense of excitement when he walked out of the door of Air Force One and down to the microphone on the tarmac. Those traveling with him and those who came to see and hear him were rarely disappointed. His bearing was precise, his words carefully chosen...
...government had survived more than 20 no-confidence votes before, but this time Prime Minister Menachem Begin could feel his Likud coalition shaking. Cutting short a visit to the U.S., Begin flew back to Israel and rushed straight to the Knesset, where a seven-hour debate on his economic policies was already under way. As the gallery buzzed with excitement, a roll call of the Knesset kept Begin in power by the slimmest margin yet, 57 to 54. Afterward he tried to be philosophical: "As Winston Churchill used to say, in a democracy, one [vote] is enough...
...credit has soared, businesses and individuals alike have begun to suffer. After a strong takeoff in new-car sales that buoyed U.S. automakers, business for the industry's 1981 model line has sagged to an annual sales rate of 6.6 million units, which itself would be 900,000 short of Detroit's 1981 target...
...recovery spur renewed inflationary momentum in the meantime. Said he during his congressional testimony: "I have spoken before about the potential for collision and conflict between restrained monetary growth and the financial needs of an expanding and inflating economy. Recent developments provide a taste of the potential problem." In short, unless Government under a Republican Administration proves better able to live within its means than has been the case with the Democrats, high interest and slow growth are likely to become permanent features of the American economy for years to come. By Christopher Byron