Word: lis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behaved abominably in puting them in his books. After the publication of Look Homeward, Angel almost the entire population of Asheville, N.C. was eager to lynch the author. Wolfe and devoted Editor Perkins laboriously explained to one and all the writer's need to draw lis fictional people from experience. But when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged to find himself and his Scribner associates pilloried in Wolfe's savage prose. And Wolfe's own turn had come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love...
...railroad lobby. As the Aere Pan Latina plane, a beat-up old bimotor, goes whiffling over the Cenral American jungle, the pilot (Robert Ryan) has a black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark), a fallen woman (Anita Ekberg) who is on her uppers-a condition which, n the shapely case of Actress Ekberg, eaves her with...
...Fleur-de-Lis & Ham Hands. Finally with the null null Purchasing Director Bernard Green guarding the door against newsmen, the executive council members entered the conference room, settled themselves around a U-shaped table (its light blue cloth elegantly flecked with silverish fleur-de-lis) to hear genial Host Dave Dubinsky bring the major issue to a showdown. Said Dubinsky: "Let's decide whether we are going to endorse anyone...
...Wednesday, the devotional day of St. Joseph, his favorite saint. Then he donned a brown suit (his lucky color) and set off crisscrossing the province in one of his gaudy, old-style election campaigns, complete with banners, fireworks, and plentiful displays of the Duplessis-commissioned fleur-de-lis flag. His main theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion. Ottawa's contingent of campaigning Cabinet ministers may have served to strengthen his argument; Defender Duplessis pointed to them as further evidence of Ottawa's plan...
Small Voice. To most of the hard-headed businessmen who run the Congo government, the signs of a Negro awakening present not a danger but a challenge. "Once advance has begun, you cannot stop it, on any front," says Economist Henri Cornélis, Pétillon's deputy and almost certain successor. The Brussels Cabinet agrees, and the result is that the Congo government is getting ready to give the Congolese a small voice in the colony's affairs. Some time next year, if present plans are carried out, the literate Africans in the principal Congo cities...