Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech by Chisholm at the annual dinner of Phi Delta Kappa, an organization at the Graduate School of Education, on April 23. Saunders said the dinner is being given in honor of women. (The local chapter has pulled out of the national organization because it does not admit women...
What is to be made of this nostalgic book about the Brooklyn Dodgers? Its title comes from a poem by Dylan Thomas, and its first chapter is called "Lines on the Transpontine Madness." "Transpontine": a very British word meaning that which lies over a bridge, specifically one that crosses the Thames. For reasons too academic to mention, it also means melodramatic...
...preparing a Hughes book and said he could help find an agent. On the advice of Novelist Irving Wallace (The Prize), Meyer suggested Wallace's agent in New York, Paul Gitlin, who handles other authors such as Harold Robbins. Meyer took the manuscript from Dietrich and channeled it, chapter by chapter, to Gitlin in New York...
This time, instead of overt defiance, the liberals concentrated on tactical victories and "a moderate, measured show of strength," as Slonimski put it. The large Warsaw chapter of the union voted down most of the government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within...
Until the third chapter Coyle is referred to only as "the stocky man," in much the same way that a surveillance report would characterize a short man who is carrying too much weight. Eddie is on a desperate course. He has a lucrative deal supplying factory-fresh 38s to a bank robber named Jimmy Scalisi, but he is also up for sentencing for a truck hijacking. "I can't afford to do no more time." he tells a friendly federal prosecutor. "The kids're growing up and they go to school and the other kids make...