Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reviewers welcomed it as a new, timely brief look at American strategy in Asia. The author himself did not claim that the work was, strictly speaking, "scholarly." Within the following two months, however, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, conclusively proved his scholarship with a detailed historical account of the wanderings of a ninth century Japanese monk, complete with a translation of the monk's diary. A two-volume work filled with 1,600 footnotes and maps of mountains and rivers that no longer exist, Ennin's Travels has been one of Reischauer's pursuits since 1935, when...
...Shoes. Now a partner and account executive in Philadelphia's Geare-Marston, Inc., advertising agency, lanky...
Goodie's biggest fight since becoming governor has been his struggle to save California's "rainy-day fund," a savings account accumulated from wartime surpluses, and which now amounts to some $70 million. Legislators have eagerly sought to tap the fund for vote-getting largesse. In an effort to save the rainy-day fund, Goodie doggedly proposed added taxes on luxuries. Recently, while Knight was attending a funeral, the assembly passed an amendment that would have drained off $40 million from the rainy-day fund. Next day Goodie sprang to action, summoned his key legislators for a dressing...
...Which has a unique arrangement with many of its regular free-lance contributors. It puts them on a "drawing account," lets them "borrow" what amounts to a regular salary against earnings from future articles...
...about a British professor and his wife who emigrate to Canada just before World War II. (Author Lewis, born in Maine when his globe-trotting parents took a cruise to the U.S., himself came to North America in World War II, stayed six years.) The book gives a shattering account of life in a rundown, chaotic, Cana dian hotel room during the convulsions of wartime. The real theme of Self Condemned is a blow-by-blow account of how a proud, independent man loses his integrity and makes a peace-without-honor with a way of life he despises. Professor...