Word: crookedness
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Last week, despite this frank confession, Stopper Corke was haled into court, fined ?2 and summarily ordered to get up ?16.0.5 in back insurance payments. "It's sheer hypocrisy!" snorted the Stopper. "The law says thieving isn't a job and is illegal. Then when it wants its...
In competition with better-heeled fiction magazines, the Atlantic-which helped pioneer the short story-has long been forced to search for stories by new and inexpensive writers, and has started many U.S. authors on the road to fame. Example: in 1927, after Cosmopolitan, the old Scribner's, Saturday...
No less a literary critic than Nikita S. Khrushchev has called this book "wrong at the root" and misrepresenting life "as through a crooked mirror." Before the Russian censors caught on to this view, the Moscow magazine Novy Mir published the novel in three installments last year. At the time...
For nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and...
The situation has been further complicated by the uncomfortably narrow, crooked character of many local streets. Over half of Cambridge's streets are 27 feet or less wide. On many of these parking on both sides and two way traffic is permitted. Assuming that the average car is six feet...