Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor in Bridgeport. When he arrived, he spoke no Japanese; today he sometimes has to search for the right word in English. He and two other Franciscan priests (both American) and two lay brothers tour the island by jeep-and when the jeeps break down, on foot. "We count distances not in miles but in mountains climbed," says Father Jerome...
With some subdued elation over the varsity's upset defeat of Yale last week, McCurdy figures the Army meet to be "every bit as close as Yale." The difference will be in the field events, where Army's decided strength should capture points which the varsity was able to count upon against Yale...
When her hair grows out, Co Ha will marry the man of her choice. Her father, facing a protracted period of disgrace, went home to count his diminished wealth and mutter imprecations against modern notions. Across the land, Saigon's press reported a sharp increase in shaven-headed maidens, a sharp decrease in arranged marriages. Encouraged, Madame Ngo pressed...
...count beyond nine, but has stopped
...Alexander Dumas Jr., most prominent of Dumas' illegitimate "Five Hundred," watched his old man's carryings-on with mingled affection and dismay. Critics have usually argued that Dumas fils (The Lady of the Camellias) was just a shadow of Dumas père (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte-Cristo). In this big, revealing study, France's Andrè Maurois tries to put the matter in a different light. He sees three generations of the Dumas dynasty as three different expressions of a single theme: "For a whole century [they] played out, against a backcloth...