Word: account
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the company produces table settings capable of competing with Scandinavia's most modern designs, traditional patterns account for over 80% of its business. "We just can't get any interest in our modern designs abroad," says Bryan. The old standbys -earthenware and jasper ware-after about 200 years on the market are still big sellers, and last year helped spur company profits to a 25% rise...
...horrifying sameness to books about Nazi concentration camps. To have read once about Auschwitz or Belsen or Dachau ought to be enough for anyone who does not want to hide from facts. Yet each successive volume uncovers new variations on the theme of human bestiality. This fictionalized account is unusual in that it begins with the agonized if rather naive question of why the Jewish victims of the Nazis did not try to fight against their doom. It ends up-almost, it sometimes seems, against the author's intent-as an account of triumph amidst total despair...
...horror and hyperbole, the journalists of the American Revolution nonetheless used incongruously rich and elegant rhetoric to describe (as one account had it) "those difficulties and obstacles which require the most consummate fortitude to surmount." They all tried to sound like gentlemen, a journalistic ambition long out of fashion...
Another slugger, rightfielder Joe DeChellis, single-handedly pulled out the Holy Cross game. The Andover grad hit a double, triple, and home run in that game to account for both Harvard runs. Neal Hurley "played what I think is the hardest position and did a good job in center," Harris said...
Finally, Dean Jones called Johnson, and Hera'd faculty advisor Mrs. Mary V. Mabry into his office and, according to the account which the Herald subsequently printed of the meeting, Dean Jones "reprimanted [the Herald representatives] for printing allegedly controversial subjects." Jones charged, the Herald reports, that the paper was 'negative,' and he 'suggested we write about nicer things than we have been reporting...