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Thereafter, Stephen Spender's life was a series of highly successful humiliations. His early humble poems established him as one of the flowers of the new clump of British poets that blossomed in the '30s. T. S. Eliot became his kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have...
...187th quickly seized its objective: a clump of hills dominating what was thought to be the escape route for the retreating Reds. "The purpose of this operation is to kill the enemy," reiterated General Ridgway, who followed the paratroopers in a light plane. But Bowen's men found their quarry had slipped out of the trap. Instead of 60,000 Communists, they found less than 20,000. A few hours after the drop, U.N. tank-led task columns from Uijongbu linked up with the chutists. The enemy was still withdrawing; north of the 38th parallel he was either digging...
Francis pulled in the slack in the rope as Forbes fell and lot out slack as Forbes hit the end to prevent a sudden jerk. Then Francis lowered him to a clump of bushes below. Humphreys stayed with Forbes during Francis' two hour scramble back to got help...
...each order of chicken served. By last week some 335 million orders of chicken had been sold under his royalty setup. Osborne also sells or leases to his franchise customers everything from patented chicken fryers to water glasses bearing his trademark (a design showing a rooster standing in a clump of grass with a broken golf club...
...made out of radio and the sense of shame I have at turning out the kind of stuff women listeners demand." Whenever she tried making Portia "more rounded," a sliding Hooperating and a cascade of angry letters sent her scurrying back to the shelter of the nearest clump of clich...