Word: leeched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAYS OF MCKINLEY (686 pp.)-Margaret Leech-Harper...
...days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley his due and his comeuppance too. If he remains as short...
...Association. In Dallas, when Charles Crouch was on trial for drunken driving, Prosecutor Paul W. Leech tried to trap him by asking, "Did you see me at the party?", and Crouch answered: "I saw one drunk. Was that...
...Talleyrand. The marriage, performed with the aid of blood rites, was everything Captain Pierre had hoped for: the devoted Ilouhi carried her husband's Tommy gun through the leech-infested rain forests, saved his life many times over, taught him the language, and initiated him into the secrets of the primitive hill tribes; as the "Father with white hair," exploiting his wife's tribal connections, he won the allies France needed...
...appearance of the names of Alonso and Heliczer may suggest that Audience is attempting not only to fill the i.e. vacuum, but to leech the Advocate, either healing it or killing it by draining away its bloodier contributors. There is not a serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards...