Word: austen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meteorologists who record the birth and upbringing of weather disturbances named her Emma, after Jane Austen's gentle heroine, the one who was so much in love with Mr. Knightley. At 4 one morning, Emma hit Okinawa with all the fury of a full-grown Pacific typhoon...
...enterprising hero of Cash McCall finds himself in just the situation he describes, while picking up a small, family-owned plastics outfit called Suffolk Moulding. Suffolk is put on the auction block in a panic by its President Grant Austen when he fears he is about to lose a vital contract. Cash offers Austen $2,000,000, and a handshake clinches the deal. Cash is soon clinching with Grant's lissome daughter Lory in a losing proxy fight for his heart...
...Lory's adoring eyes Cash is something of a Neo-Renaissance prince of a man. He flies his own remodeled B26, made his first million before he was 30, and can discuss equally knowledgeably the merits of Italian ham or the life of Buddha. However, when Grant Austen learns that he panicked too soon on Suffolk Moulding, and that McCall is about to unload the company at a $1,000,000 profit, he sees Cash only as a king-size heel. Before the gold dust settles. Cash gets a chance to prove his good faith, and does...
...understand, and nothing but talk . . . To simulate Lady Brett, however, as long as she's in fashion, Shirley talks free and necks on a rigidly graduated scale . . . She can find no guidance anywhere . . . In literature her problem doesn't exist. The old novels are all about Jane Austen and Dickens heroines ... And the new novels are all more or less about Brett Ashley, who sleeps with any guy who really insists, but is a poetic pure tortured soul at heart. This leaves Shirley squarely in the middle. What...
...veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...