Word: deeding
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...terms of the endowment deed to be fulfilled, he said, it will be necessary to change the Farnsworth collection include books which students to consider recreational reading. The freshmen, upperclassmen, graduate and Faculty members who announced the poll strongly endorsed humor, and 'new' books. Many favored a wider selection of science fiction, newspapers, art, and photography books in the Room...
...supply, the tires, and the road, and followed their progress constantly on a large map which he carried." About 7 o'clock two mornings after they arrived, "he took the final positive action of his life. Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further, he, who had given what he once described as the gift of death to so many living creatures in his lifetime, loaded the weapon he held and then leaned forward as he placed...
...Mahon shows Christy up as a mere poet, a liar. And when he actually does perform the crime before their eyes, he becomes a criminal. "There's a great gap," says Pegeen Mike, the girl with whom he has fallen in love, "between a gallous story and a dirty deed." Her rejection of Christy jolts him to an awakening: the idle dreamer becomes a poet of reality, and in the process, a man. When Old Mahon survives his second murder, he leaves for home with Christy. "My son and myself will be going our own way, and we'll have...
...Operating on the theory that one good deed deserves another, Yankee Slugger (61 home runs) Roger Maris showed up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to talk contract with General Manager Roy Hamey. His bags were already packed, should Hamey prove stubborn, but Maris was persuaded to stay. The clincher: a $32,000 raise (to $70,000)-or about $525 for each of his 1961 homers...
...even while those talks were under way, both Russia and the U.S. announced that they were voluntarily suspending atomic tests. The U.S. lived up to the moratorium in word and deed. But Russia used the interim to make vast preparations for the series of Soviet atomic tests in the atmosphere that began last September. Studies of those tests have made it critically clear that the U.S. must itself resume atmospheric testing if it is to regain the huge lead it once held over the Soviet Union in nuclear weaponry. This week the National Security Council is scheduled to suggest...