Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katharsis. In Perry, N.Y., a classified ad appeared in the Perry Herald, asking nothing, offering nothing, merely complaining: "Some lousy whelp stole my snow shovel off my porch last week. Margaret Keelty, North Center Street...
...Equatorial African trading post of Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes to wake him, wearing her usual black silk dress and no underclothing. Mutual captivation follows instantly...
Within a few days Timar is happily forgetful of his job, drinking heavily, scorning Adèle's obese, mouching husband. And then comes sudden death-to Adऑe's husband by fever, to a Negro waiter by an unknown hand. Adèle is calm as ever, boxes up her husband without a tear and persuades the infatuated Timar to use his uncle's influence to get them a partnership trading concession in the back country...
...things crop up to disturb Timar's sodden conscience. As they travel to their new home, Adèle disappears for hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville...
...September U.S. and Australian troops had been moving in to do it. Not until light tanks, 13-ton General Stuarts, were brought into action Dec. 8 did the tide begin to run decisively for the United Nations (TIME, Dec. 28). Even then it was a slow, bunker-by-bunker ad vance. Thrice General MacArthur announced that victory was near. Buna village and Gona, farther north, fell by mid-December, but not Buna Mission, a mile from the village, or other regions along the coast...