Word: endings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accounting for the final Crimson tries. Miller, who played for Dartmouth last spring, made the score 8 to 0 when he grabbed a pass and scampered 20 yards to the goal line. This was the only time during the afternoon when wing forward Jack Butterfield failed to convert. Holmes ended the half as he fell on the ball in the end zone after a quick dribbling rush...
VOLKSWAGEN STOCK SALE has been agreed upon by West German federal government and state of Lower Saxony, will end a ten-year ownership dispute. Plan calls for 60% of shares to be sold to the public, 20% to be held by Bonn, 20% by Lower Saxony. To prevent majority control by a single group and to spread ownership as widely as possible, the $25 shares will be rationed five to an investor. To attract lower-income customers, initial sale will be restricted to German citizens making less than $4,000 a year...
...singular breed of evil locusts, Flem Snopes and his clan showed up in Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County at precisely the moment when the old Southern aristocracy had become a pushover for vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because it helped Flem to become...
...because Author Faulkner understands them as deeply as he hates them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright sloppiness. And just as surely, much of it seems in the end like some kind of smoldering, personal poetry that stands out defiantly imperfect and unassailable...
...enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom bomb. At war's end, a grieving, disbelieving Ampter discovers that Sebastian has made him the butt of something very like the "Chevalier incident...