Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week I was in a cafe in the university district here. Two students, a boy and a girl, came in and ordered two cannibals, smothered, to go...
...indefatigable man meanwhile had been pursuing his own career as a practicing attorney. He left Tuttle's firm to go on his own. ("Anyone dropping a nickel near me was taking a chance.") He got into appeals work and until 1931 did nothing else. In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years...
...time when Senators were itching to shut up and go home, the talkdown worked. At week's end, by a vote of 36 to 30, the Senate sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee. Nineteen Republicans joined 17 Democrats (mostly from the South) to put off the bill until next year...
Sadly, Troubleshooter Tuan considered the causes of the diplomats' defection. "It was not that the staff of this embassy has not been paid since last June," he mused. "It has been demonstrated that Chinese diplomats can go unpaid for a whole year without damage to morale. It is perhaps a desire to keep in touch with the homeland, perhaps a political disagreement...
...last week received the news of the honor conferred on him with hardly a flick of his huge, bushy white eyebrows. He announced he would go to Oslo in December to receive his Nobel Prize medal, diploma and check; a true Scotsman, he noted that the prize money (to be used "for peace") would be only $21,900, almost $10,000 less than what it would have been before devaluation...