Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Rio de Janeiro, where he is living in modest circumstances but lionized by Brazilian intellectuals, Delgado told a TIME correspondent: "It was a small affair, but it frightened the Salazar government to death. I suppose they intended to take over some key points, call on me to abolish the...
Illiteracy in Liberia remains at 95%, only one-quarter of the school-age population is actually attending school, and there is still such a national weakness for corruption that the President himself signs all government vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15...
After serving a stint in the garment center as a delivery boy at $6 a week, and turning over stones when opportunity offered, young Segal went off to World War II. "I was a corporal twice and a sergeant once, but I went in and came out a private. I...
Believe me, my young friend, [said the Water Rat solemnly], there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing . . . Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't...
On the Rocks. Harsen himself has not yet bought a house, lives with his wife in a simply furnished apartment overlooking the harbor in nearby Fort Lauderdale, keeps a weather eye on the passing parade of boats ("When 70% of them are not Chris-Crafts, I'll know something...