Word: herman
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Listed with Kissinger and Schelling among the "militarists" is Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute and formerly of the Rand Corporation...
...enlisted men to help him dispose of the body. The U.S. made a pro forma apology to Castro. Then, Anderson wrote, the Marine Corps eased four of the officers out of the service and hushed up the affair. Two Republican Congressmen from Pennsylvania-Richard S. Schweiker and Herman T. Schneebeli-said they had appealed to the Marine Corps without success to reinstate Lieut. William A. Szili. Szili, now a Norristown, Pa., insurance salesman, said he was reluctant to talk because he had been told that he might face a $10,000 fine and ten years in prison for his part...
...know it but the arteries leading to his legs were clogged with a fatty cholesterol-like substance-what physicians call an atheroma. But that was the least of his troubles. The deposits were also forming in the neck arteries that feed the brain. If nothing were done, Herman Key was headed for a stroke...
...sometimes feel closer to Herman Melville than to anyone else," Nolan says. "As in Moby Dick, he and I are juggling the same ingredients: the single protagonist, the mysterious adversary, the all-powerful elements." Nolan regards these themes as obsessions, and he is glad to be obsessed. Every artist is bombarded by a chaos of images and clues about what to paint; the obsessions are "in a sense a net to trap these clues...
...tells the story of Herman Wouk (for whom he makes no claims as a novelist) who decided to be a writer, and spent three years just reading the great stories of the world. This is close to what Van Doren believes one should do and modern novelists...