Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He added that men should direct half their energy internally and the other half externally. "If you look inside, our head is not big, but there are many places to explore," he said.
If McMahon includes a fair amount of genuine historical detail and character, he traces the fictional ideas to his own experience: "Fiction is only half fictional all the time."
BAD CRIMINALS ARE a dime a dozen. They're the ones that police reporters write up in the next day's paper, tucked in among the marriage announcements. Good criminals, on the other hand, are a lot harder to track down. You've got to devote a lot of time...
He had extraordinary power over women. Give Charles a few hours around a girl and even if she were convent-educated and the daughter of a police inspector, she would usually do what Charles asked her to do.
But Handlin misses the point. Just as evidence exists that things happened one way, there are gaps in history where things may have occurred differently. Only where there is evidence is there history, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian tells us. Thus it follows that if there is no evidence, there...