Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion of a withdrawal was invariably to suspect that it was motivated by lack of courage, and that his most usual attitude . . was to reject [it] offhand." But his generals' postwar charge that he "acted entirely by intuition . . . was inaccessible to rational considerations and did not brook contradiction ... is [not] borne out by these documents...
...hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave's refusal to make political distinctions...
...deposits from $219 million to $2.3 billion. Gibson, who works as hard as any of his banking colleagues, and at 68 plays harder than most of them, still finds time to salmon-fish and ski (see cut), was once Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Hounds. He has poured more than $300,000 of his own money into his home town of North Conway, N.H., to make it a leading ski center in the U.S. (TIME...
Hananiah Harari is a slick, meticulous commercial artist whose sharp-focus Coca-Cola ads, whisky displays (Old Sunny Brook) and magazine covers (FORTUNE) look even more real than the photographs he often paints from. He is also a solemn abstractionist. Last week Harari's "serious" paintings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery. They looked like nothing so much as houses built of cards for a game unknown to Hoyle...
...that occasion that we paused for a minute somewhere above the town to peer into a little brook. We looked at it in silence, and my thoughts ran to the possibility of fish...