Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last the peasants, who perhaps had thought that the airmen were their old enemies, the Turks, fell back. Just before the Soviet military police arrived one of the peasants offered Shupe a drink of water. "Don't ask me why," said he afterward. "I'll never know why those words worked...
...hang around Schoenhof's in the day-time and well-lit Wigg windows at night (in this sublimating summer age), who scrawl bits of free verse on toilet paper tissue and pursue the Muse enthusiastically. Like the grimy fellow who whispered over his Haffenreffer malt liquor: "How could James know about life? You heard about the bicycle accident he had when he was young? Well...
...cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were crepes suzette. At the climax, The Good Guy and The Bad Guy shoot it out to supply the answer to the second most important question the picture poses: Who is faster on The Draw? Nobody seems to know the answer to the most important question: Why is Robert Taylor, a man of considerable general culture, content to spend most of his working hours grubbing around in the bottom of the oatbin...
What changed him Biographer Daniels does not know, and he refuses to guess. Perhaps the general simply could not confine his venturesome ego to a small Philadelphia lumber business and a placid, happy marriage. Backed by capital that may or may not have come from Wall Street, Littlefield went back to the South in 1867 with a bold scheme that was tactically watertight-and morally as leaky as a sieve. The plan was to buy up defaulted North Carolina railroad bonds for pennies, lobby or bribe the legislature into redeeming them, and sell on the rise. Littlefield found a ready...
...woman for whom the old boy is a catch of convenience. Married, he discovers that a marriage of male habit and female indifference is not enough to keep off the evening chill. After a trip to Italy, his wife recites a simple fact of life to him: "George, you know you're getting too old for this sort of thing-it's not good for you; you look ghastly." But Author Lessing does not play this situation for sexual repartee. Her story is a comment on vapid people who have grown incapable of the emotions that can cement...