Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many as Can Walk. Captain Harry had said that he wanted as many of them "as can walk" to be his official escort at the inauguration. He wouldn't be able to march along with them. "I'll be wearing a high silk hat and a long-tailed coat," he said, "and I'm not going to march along in that...
What graduates feel that way, Mr. Pond? Not I, certainly, nor a good many other Harvard graduates, I'll wager. You give me the answer in the next sentence--"the conservative element...
...priests will be home then, and you will persuade them to sign . . . You'd better not hedge," he added, pointing to the chief of political police. Then, shifting his line from one of threats to rewards, the Red official promised: "If you cooperate, you'll be made head of the Church in Hungary...
Walter Murch is a man who loves to work at night, painting floodlit still lifes in a shadowy studio. "Sometimes I'll knock off to raid the icebox," he says, "but when I'm working I'm liable to forget the time altogether. Between the emotional kick and the visual kick, I feel suspended...
...doors for a week at a time," Murch says. "Then I'll take a walk and look around vaguely for something to paint. The other day I found a dog's head at a taxidermist's. It was a fox terrier mounted on the wall like a moose." He generally finds what he is looking for in shop windows: "For instance that fish in the show. I'd been wanting to do a fish for years but there were practical difficulties, you might say. This one was smoked. It lasted over a week and a half...