Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open and honest and free from guile...
Note on existentialism--it is the basis for vaudeville, newspaper, and radio jokes here now. There are many existentialists in Paris but they dwell in their clubs. Those cafes are the product of Time magazine...
...English carry into almost every department of modern life their great unwillingness to admit facts, their power of pretending that things are not so ... [They] live in cities but they are not citified . . . They are urbane without being urban . . . They can dwell in the midst of 20 miles of paving stones and pretend, with the aid of a back green or even of a flowerpot, that they are in a hamlet on the Downs." Yet this self-deception is not all lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere...
...manufacturer, will not be too typical of forthcoming British-American trade relationships. Jackson took the 65-pound bike (a civilian model of that used by paratroops during the war) out for his first spin, skidded in some loose gravel, fractured his left foot. Rather, they like to dwell on the gift which Jackson received from another enthusiastic Britisher, the morning after his speech at the British Consumer Goods meeting - a case of Scotch whiskey (now selling for $18-$20 a bottle in London...
...find two kinds of poor drivers," he announced, "those whose IQ shows they can't read the read signs, and others whose IQ's are above 110. College professors are in the latter group. Investigation indicates that professors at the steering wheel permit their thoughts to dwell on matters other than driving...