Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Whig was the devil!" exclaimed Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1778. The good Tory doctor had reason to be vehement, for nothing like the Whig aristocracy had existed in England before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...
...Turgenev (Fathers and Sons, On the Eve, Rudin), with the vital difference that he spent a lifetime analyzing and fighting it. Too gentle to be as dogmatic as the proud Tolstoy, too rebellious to accept the resignation of Dostoevsky, Turgenev made his place in literature as a genius who dwelt in a house divided against itself, half slave and half free...
...speeches made on the same day last week to audiences some 20 miles apart, the heads of two branches of the U.S. Government, the President and the Chief Justice, dwelt on a fundamental series of relationships between God, order, freedom and peace...
...Nobel Prize speech, Novelist William Faulkner made much of the "agony and sweat" that went into his writing. He might, with equal pertinence, have dwelt on the agony and sweat that he requires of his readers. To his admirers, a new Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort...
Once, on the east bank of the Jordan, the Greeks founded the League of Ten Cities, the Romans built baths and forums, and 1,500,000 people dwelt in plenty and exported wheat to Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only because London, for strategic reasons, ships in ?8,000,000 sterling a year to Jordan. Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in the fabled caliphate of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports...