Word: contentedness
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The Fall. Then Penny ran up against a lithe (5 ft. 5 in., 115 Ibs.), tousleheaded Canadian named Anne Heggtveit. Poised and perky at 21, Anne lost 12 Ibs. while training for the Olympics, decided to concentrate on the slalom, where agility counts more than weight. She contented herself with...
The medical society wanted to keep staff membership of the Jefferson Davis Hospital open to all practicing physicians. The medical school wanted to staff it mainly with research-minded faculty members. Dr. Leader needled the medical society and used strong words. They contented themselves with censuring him. Who succeeded in...
Writing the sanitized speeches has become a profitable business in itself. In Manhattan alone, a dozen ghostwriting agencies grind out hundreds of orations a year, collect up to $1,000 a copy. In Cleveland, the National Reference Library publishes booklets of canned speeches (price $4 to $20), tailors individual ones...
Not only by contrast, but in their own right, it seemed to me that the other dances were rather dreary affairs. The first, and much the longest, was based on Thurber's "The Wonderful O." Read by an anonymous narrator, the story was fun to hear, but it was interrupted...
As the Japanese overran the Philippines, Mydans and his wife watched from the shore as the freighter that might have taken them to safety was sunk at her mooring by a Japanese plane. Soon after, they were taken prisoner and for two years endured a hell that many failed to...