Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...
...Late at night, in his room, he fills a page of his journal with a confused, but scathing, account of his first engagement . . . and falls to sleep where he is immediately chased through long, dark thickets by a Mrs. Mabel Frankincense Mehaffey, with a tray of martinis and lyrics. And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first but which seems to him now, after the ulcerous rigors of a lecturer's spring, a haven cozy as toast, cool as an icebox, and safe...
...they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory. Six months later, Earthquake emerged from Communist China with a huge beard (they had taken his razor from him) and a cheerful account of life in a Communist jail. "The Communists went out of their way to treat me good," he said. His friends quipped that the Reds let him go because they couldn't feed him, and composed affectionate doggerel about the mock-heroic legend...
...Next day, noting this simple gesture of human decency, the Communist newspaper L'Unitá surpassed even itself in snarling bad manners. "These messages," wrote L'Unitá, "offer an extraordinary example of Atlantic servility of the present government. They can be explained only by taking into account that Scelba and Piccioni, who are intimately connected with pimps and profiteers, feel sympathy for the exploiters of colonial peoples...
...without cause, left my habitation and is floating on the ocean of tyrannical extravagance, prone to prodigality . . . kindling her pipe with the coal of curiosity . . . [To] abolish such insidious, clandestine, noxious, pernicious, diabolical, and notorious deportment, I therefore caution all persons from harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting . . . unless compelled by law . . . E. H. Mailliw...