Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hale & hearty at 82, the Queen Mother has no use for weakness of any kind. Her standards are as rigid and unchanging as her styles in hats and dresses. At one of her rare visits to an exhibition of modern art, says Wulff, "Queen Mary frankly did not like what she saw . . . Rather than offend the feelings of the artist by expressing her opinion, she remained silent...
Szipzr would not deny his prisoners the advantages which he himself enjoyed. For fat fees he would provide bored, wealthy prisoners with women visitors, who frequently stayed overnight in the cells. There were nights when the corridors of the Marko Street House of Detention sounded just like one of Budapest's livelier nightspots. Drinks were sold by Szipzr and his assistants, and only the gypsy band was missing...
...deluge came too late for Castro and thousands of others like him. When Castro got back to his hillside, he found his wife methodically collecting straw for adobe bricks. His house had dissolved, his cornpatch was gutted, his pig and ox had strayed or drowned. Last week, as the first adobe bricks for his new house were drying in the sun, he and his family hunched round an open fire eating fresh-water crabs from Lake Atitlán. But there were no tortillas. Corn could not be bought at any price...
Three weeks ago such team work got a priority policy rating from the North Atlantic Treaty Defense Committee. If North American forces were to work as an operational unit, both Washington and Ottawa wanted many more get-togethers like Operation Metropolis...
Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas, 72, told a Boston interviewer that he was staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...