Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter, when there was no fishing, Annie cut 20 cords of pulpwood for sale and a couple of cords for the home stove. Said she last week: "I make enough out of fishing and pulpwood to live on. There isn't much left over. I love the sea and I love the land. I think maybe I would like other things better but this is my bread & butter." Then she added with pride: "The men down here who go fishing all think I'm wonderful...
...Begin by imagining a world in which there are only two preponderantly powerful countries ... in a conflict of basic beliefs. Call it cold war or hot peace, both nations feel the world isn't big enough for their opposing political theologies...
...unconverted get nowhere accusing bebop of dissonance. Says Dizzy: "If it doesn't hurt your ears it isn't dissonance. But then," he confesses, "I'm a little deaf myself...
...third row of the grandstand, he studies the horse's weight, his past performances, the track conditions, the jockey's record. Then he tries to weigh a few imponderables: e.g., how badly do the owner and the jockey want to win this race? The wise-guy fan isn't particularly horrified by the dark shenanigans he suspects. He only wishes he were in on them...
...isn't too worried about the fact that Yale has ripped through Columbia and Princeton this spring and that the Eli times have generally been superior to Harvard...