Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sermon in which he said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...
...perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make Ida's death moving without being sentimental, and Roger...
...girls, both 1955 Silver Skates champions, inflicted numerous injuries on officers. Cambridge patrolman Frank Foster was kicked in the groin, and bitten on the hand and back, while University patrolman George Burrows was knocked down and bitten on the knee...
...strike benefits paid to about 2,800 original strikers, plus $2,000,000 in other expenses, e.g., promoting a nationwide boycott of Kohler plumbing fixtures. But the union contends that Kohler Co. has lost $25 million to $35 million in sales. The family-owned company, run by hard-bitten President Herbert V. Kohler, 65, disputes this claim. Although it publishes no annual report, the company says that the boycott gained it more sales than it lost, contends that it has held production close to normal by hiring nonunion workers. Last week the Milwaukee Journal's Labor Reporter John...
Double Questions. Catton is not so successful when bitten by the malady known as historian's hindsight. At intervals, he pulls up his narrative to suggest questions about whether the war need ever have been fought at all or, on the other hand, whether it could not have taken another course. For these double-barreled questions Catton provides double-barreled answers ("Fate can move in two directions at once. At the same moment that it was driving men on to destroy the unity of their society it was also making certain that they would not be able...