Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunter Haig was robbed for the second time in as many months early last evening when two bandits broke in the front door, filled their automobile with clothing, and drove away unquestioned...
...balmy day last week, a Manhattan housewife shopped for her summer clothes. In one store she eyed a cotton dress, turned on her heel when she saw the $40 price tag. But before she could get away, the saleswoman stopped her; the dress had just been marked down. The new price was $15; the customer took...
...decision made potentially big businesses of Slick Airways and the Flying Tiger Line, which are among the strongest survivors of all the shoestring lines that scudded across U.S. skies at war's end. But neither 28-year-old Earl Slick nor Bob Prescott let it take his breath away...
...works so hard. "My first phrase is always a monster .. . Everything has to be rewritten." Moreover, he says: "Write ... if you must, but for God's sake don't talk about it." For 20 years, Martin du Gard wrote and rewrote The Thibaults. Once he threw away a whole volume when he decided it would weaken the cycle. In 1940 the last volume, Epilogue was published...
...informal but experienced squad of Harvard graduates took on the combined forces of the varsity and freshman tennis teams Saturday, and as is usually the case in these traditional battles, the Grads walked away with the win, this time by the scores...