Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist writes history in the best of ways, that is in the moment that history takes place. He lives history, he touches history with his hands, he looks at it with his eyes, he listens to it with his ears. Listen, Herodotus in his day was a damned f__ing journalist...
...Sylvia who discerned why: "When you're looking at Christabel, you're look ing at an emancipated woman...
...farms, grew their own corn and potatoes, made most of their own clothes. In the not-yet-crowded countryside and seashore, the woods were full of wild game and the waters of cod, carp, shad and salmon. Life was tough and dangerous but self-sufficient. What now seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude...
...Navy frogmen swam toward the capsized spacecraft, Stafford yelled into his microphone, "Get this -ing hatch open as soon as possible." After a moment, he cracked the hatch open himself. Most of his words were lost in the poor radio communication between the ship and Mission Control, apparently because a microphone had been left open during the hurried efforts to revive Brand. By now aware of a problem, a frogman clambered onto the edge of the ship, peered into a window and gave a thumbs-up sign to reassure everyone that the astronauts were all right. It was not until...
...Hymn, and in every way used his dream of returning to America to keep his spirits up. There is an astonishing passage in the book describing how he began walking from one end of his cell to the other, counting each measured footstep as he imagined himself walk ing out of prison into the suburbs of Moscow, crossing into Poland, across Germany and France, on to the floor of the Atlantic...