Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling his way toward some face-saving way of settling the problems of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Humphrey's final reassurance on behalf of the U.S.: "We don't want a grain of sand from your deserts, a stone from your pyramids, or a drop of water from your canal. We don't even want your gratitude. All we want is peace...
...solitary confinement as a spy. Two years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
...Faulkner's greatest service to his students came between the hours of 10 and 12 in the morning, five days a week, when he would sit in a tiny office and talk about the lonely task of writing with anyone who cared to drop in. The student who wanted to learn about himself found that a talk with Faulkner was as revealing as a session on the analyst's couch. "He reminded me of things I wanted to forget," said one senior. "You have to open up your insides and put them out on the table and examine...
...chief reasons for the industry's drop in index is the disappointing performance of the auto industry, which is still drawing heavily on its steel inventories. Last week, Henry Ford noted that Ford automobile sales were up 14%, and the company will gross a record $3 billion in the first half. He predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice...
What hurt more was the fact that the drop in overall sales would virtually all come out of General Motors' share of the market. Last week at G.M.'s annual meeting, a stockholder asked who was responsible for G.M.'s poor "static styling" this year. Answered President Curtice: "The present management...