Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gratification is not love, the golden pair find after 146 pages of satisfying themselves. "It was as though, for the first time, we saw what we were doing. It seemed that we were not merely lying locked in that hard merciless embrace of pain and love. But we were also standing above somewhere, watching. We knew what we would do; we did it; we looked back upon it. We had never had to love with perspective before. It spoiled...
...biannual autumnal electioneering exhibition draws nearer its November denouement, both parties find accuracy less and less requisite in their campaigns. Vice-President Nixon might well be correct in saying, "The public memory is very short," but he and his party are insulting the voters' intelligence in proclaiming that the Democratic Party was responsible for the defeat of the Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill...
...recognize" Peking. It must be a two-way street. If Peking asks, "Do you recognize us as possessing Formosa," we will promptly answer "No," and that may be the end of "recognition" as a real development of two-way relations. On the other hand, we might find it useful to bargain hard about recognition of Communist China as the mainland regime, making this bargain a part of a larger deal. But recognition as a unilateral act on our part is no panacea and will bring no millennium...
...father, Fannie looked down from a hotel window and saw her future. People, she remembers, were "flowing like slow molasses, yet full of heartbeat and fear and hope and power and-infinity. Those people down there were composed of persons." She would have to live in New York, find the persons among the people, glaze them with her words...
Neighbor Hood. In Redondo Beach Calif., Leo D. Burr left a note on his door reading, "Make yourself at home-the key's under the mat," returned to find that a thief had taken two rifles, an adding machine, a typewriter, a sewing machine, a piggy bank...