Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assignment; she was on hand for Bruno Hauptmann's trial, F.D.R.'s first presidential campaign, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Princess Margaret's marriage, Khrushchev's U.S. visit. In turn, her fellow Hearst employees respected her as a master practitioner of Hearst journalism, a judgment that was amply evident in the amount of space-some seven pages-that the Journal-American devoted to her death...
...first there were many short circuits. For one thing, people tended to lie about their looks, checked themselves off as attractive when "not exceptionally attractive" would have been a generous judgment. For another, the early computer program told a subscriber who his "ideal mate" was and whose "ideal mate" he was, but the names were seldom the same. One pioneer received a letter from a girl saying that as he was her dream come true on paper, she wanted to meet him in the flesh. When he finally stood face to face with her, he recalls: "I didn...
...Atropos with her shears, Time with his scythe, the Pale Horse and Rider of the Apocalypse, the grinning skeleton at the revels of Everyman-and the God of Judgment-have maintained their power on earth, to frighten man and elate him, to drive him to noble works and to dreadful deeds...
Except for the trudge upstairs (where quarters are cheaper), Chicago-based Household Finance makes the process of borrowing so simple that 2,000,000 Americans a year go into debt to it. Relying chiefly on its quick judgment of an applicant's ability and his willingness to repay, the company makes nearly a half of its loans unse- cured, most of the rest through a legally loose chattel mortgage on borrower's household goods. Its sharp-eyed loan managers turn down 64% of would-be borrowers-but that leaves plenty. Household Finance has doubled its loan business...
Full of wounds, all in the breast. I did what I could, grandfather. More than I could, just as you directed. Now that the battle is over, I come to recline at your side, to become dust at your side, that the two of us may await the Final Judgment together...Grandfather, hello...