Word: sweating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...required for undressing in a Pullman berth: a brand of gymnastics which would do credit to a graduate student of yoga. He knows that the car's oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals (and a couple of sleeping pills) as a matter of course; the inexperienced lie sleepless while the car is shuttle-cocked for long hours in midnight switchyards...
...this highest German superlative. The 300,000 blanketed the whole rubble-strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered against her father's shoulder. He muttered to someone near him: "Why shouldn't she be here? These are historic hours. We're going to see freedom...
...bill was paid by a fur company. Louisiana Story cost $258,000 and an oil company picked up the tab, specifying that its name was not to be tagged on the film. For oilmen, the film does its job by showing that oil comes from the sweat and courage of common men, not from an inanimate "industrial octopus." As a subtle piece of public relations, Louisiana Story may inspire many successors...
...Sudden Sweat in Boston. Seldom has the gullibility and wishful thinking of pinkish academic intellectuals been so perfectly exposed as in this little book. The months Matthiessen spent in Prague were months when the Czech Communists were openly preparing for their seizure of power. Yet Matthiessen derided the idea that the Czech people faced a "loss of Czech freedom." Several months later, when he was back at Harvard and events in Czechoslovakia forced him to reconsider, he added a footnote to his book blaming the U.S. press for helping to bring on "such pressures from the Communists...
...Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives the dispossessed their only...