Word: dozen
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...they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad things is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...
That task was made harder by the fact that Korea's economy is one of the world's most inbred. The vast majority of the nation's wealth is held by a dozen or so gigantic interlocking conglomerates called chaebols. The huge firms employ most of the adult working population and own most of the banks, which during a decade of superheated growth lent far too much money back to their parent companies for risky investments all over the world. As those projects faltered, so did the banks. And as overseas lenders tried to recoup their investments, Korea's currency...
...story is all there, a clear-eyed sketch of lower-middle-class Irish-American life, in a dozen paragraphs of bar conversation. "He had the sweetest nature," says a cousin. "He found a way to like everyone, he really did...He could always get you laughing." Another voice: "God, wasn't he funny?" The author interpolates: "Not missing the irony of the drinks in their hands and the drink that had killed him, but redeeming, perhaps, the pleasure of a drink or two, on a sad, wet afternoon, in the company of old friends, from the miserable thing that...
McLaughlin said Simpson last year attended a dozen IOP suppers--a popular networking and discussion event held after the IOP's study groups...
...Imagine the construction industry making regular use of the atomic bomb to build harbors, tunnels and canals, as if it were nothing more than an extremely large stick of TNT. That was the dream of the Energy Department, which according to newly declassified documents set off more than two dozen atomic blasts ? some of them six times as powerful as Hiroshima ? between 1961 and 1973, to test the process...