Word: individualistic
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...picturesque, sentimental, occasionally tedious first novel which won the $1,000 prize money as U. S. entry in a cosmic contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition ($15,000). The author, 39, is a syndicate book reviewer for the Associated Press. The hero is a fat, rugged-individualist newspaper publisher, the background obviously Kansas City...
...BANKING Individualist...
...purchase contract for his farm-with the reservation that the colony farms remain in the cooperative -stubborn Mr. Pippel balked, refused to sign, hawked his produce at Anchorage. Resigning from the cooperative, Pippel went to court. Last August the case of People v. Pippel was settled out of court. Individualist Pippel agreed to vacate his colony farm and start all over again...
...Serrano had won a great victory. But with the politically minded Army excluded from power, food scarce, millions of unreconstructed Republicans, and recovery lagging, observers last week wondered how long his minority of a minority could force individualist Spain into a strait-jacket rule...
Professionals criticize the free lances for using popular stereotypes (the "robot" Germans, the "individualistic" French, the "cowardly wops," the "bemused" Russians). They point out that before the World War the German Imperial Army was drilled to the teeth, yet the German mechanical marvel did not fall apart before the attacks of the "individualistic" French and British. Always good military technicians, the Germans teach their men infiltration tactics, stress individualist action by small groups of soldiers, encourage initiative all through the ranks...