Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interviewed the 72-year-old mother of Sir John Hunt, who led the Mt. Everest expedition, but offered no clue as to why or what resulted beyond the fact that she "described an incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging women were sometimes withheld from them-without saying who might have withheld them. Still another blind story said: "The name of a person in whom the police are particularly interested was found to have occurred in at least four wills . . ." Elsewhere...
...seen that is all of 20 feet across. But before they can move in, there are a few details to be attended to-like say 300 Apaches waiting for them to come down off that butte. There is the further difficulty of four murders charged to Widmark's account, but a kindly old general s willing to forget about such minor matters if the hero is willing to accept the heroine's custody for as long as they both shall live-a decision the synopsis calls 'worthy of Solomon...
...Newspaperman John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, long banned in the Soviet Union,presumably on personal order of Joseph Stalin, was restored to the index of approved reading. Reed's enthusiastic eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution (on his death in Moscow in 1920 the Bolsheviks gave him a hero's burial in the Kremlin wall) omits all mention of the role played by the then obscure Stalin...
...something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...
Ernest Hemingway appears to have left the inedible portions of his celebrated prose style littered all over the green hills of Africa. In his latest novel, Old Africa Hand Stuart Cloete, who last year published a perceptive nonfiction account of his dark and complicated continent (TIME, Oct. 3), has taken up the clipped clarity of the Hemingway of life...