Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busy as a beaver, he estimated his peak output at 350,000 words a year, occasionally resolved to ease off. "My New Year resolution," he swore to Ego at the beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...
...traditionally weak Tech sqquad has bowed to Stevens Tech, a team the Crimson routed, and was outclassed, 13 to 1, by Dartmouth. The only Beaver victory was at the expense of the Boston Lacrosse Club...
...honor guard of Belgian troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition shipped from Montreal to equip a Belgian infantry division...
...Titan," the absorbing story of Michelangelo, and "Beaver Valley," the fascinating tale of an anonymous animal kingdom, are also featured at the Beacon Hill. The marquee boasts that all three films are Academy Award winners. And all three speak well for the value of the award itself...
Inexhaustible President Auriol, 66, was still working like a beaver. He laid two palm fronds below two tablets at the French Line pier, hustled into the new U.N. building, was cheered, hustled back to the Waldorf, and gave a reception for 2,000 people of New York's French colony. That night, hoarse but willing, he spoke at another banquet, and again as throughout his stay, managed to say just the right thing, even after it was translated from the French...