Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to call pa triotism old-fashioned," grouses Wayne today. As he sees it, yesterday was even worse. "With all that leftist activity, I was quite obviously on the other side," he recalls. "I was invited at first to a coupla cell meetings, and I played the lamb to listen to 'em for a while. The only guy that ever fooled me was the di rector Edward Dmytryk. I made a pic ture with him called Back to Bataan...
...Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads...
...shrinkage of its trade surplus from $7 billion in 1964 to less than $1 billion last year. Washington has reacted by putting up barriers against products as diverse as Mexican tomatoes and European and Japanese steel. Since January, Congressmen have filed 300 bills to restrict imports of lamb, baseball gloves, artificial sweeteners and other products...
...Credulity," Charles Lamb observed, "is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." The principal ingredient of The Fool Killer is false belief-in the evanescent ghosts of folklore that are part of a boy's education and a grownup's destruction...
Thereafter, as Edel sees it, in all ways, James revived. He moved from London to Sussex with his "faithful fat dog" Tosca, a canary and a bicycle. He had dinner at 8 on his terrace, as if his English cottage were a Florentine villa. Finally he bought Lamb House in Rye, acquired an agent, and managed his business with unsuspected shrewdness. He priced his short stories (in good times, he wrote one a week) at $250, got as much as $375 for an article, and insisted on $3,000 from Harper's Weekly for serial rights to The Awkward...