Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month I have been traveling in the U.S.A. on a lecture tour, and, since America insists upon keeping her cities so far apart, I have had ample time on the trains to read. ... I soon found that TIME was not only becoming a habit but a necessity...
Then Eduard Benes swore in the new ministers. When the President and the Premier started to shake hands in parting, they found that they stood quite far apart; they had to bend over a long way to make contact...
...Century, Britain tried to settle it all by promising the Guatemalans a road to their back-country province of Petén in return for recognition. By failing to build the road, Guatemalans claim, the British forfeited their title. Since then the British have lost money on their colony. Apart from a seaport for Petén, all the Guatemalans would win with Belize is prestige...
...more exalted moods, man puts the question differently: "Am I not, indeed, the paragon of the creation, distinctive, unique, set apart and above it by my faculty of reason?" But man has only to observe himself in his dining, bath and bed rooms to feel a stabbing sense of his kinship with the animals...
...costumed duel-to-the-death in which "the two antagonists lock wrists . . . their sweat-drenched faces only an inch apart . . . and swap talk: 'Norman dog! Anglo-Saxon lilies will grow over thy bones ere yon sun sets...