Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide-eyed. "I once told F.D.R. about democracy in Central America. Democracy down here is like a baby-and nobody gives a baby everything to eat right away. I'm giving 'em liberty-but in my style. If you give a baby a hot tamale, you'll kill...
...hours Tacho talks with pleaders, politicians, hangers-on. If he agrees to a proposal and gives an order then & there, the proposal will be carried out. If he says he'll think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...
...ello fled to the Mexican embassy, then to Mexico, where he died. Growled Tacho, who finally decided that Uncle Victor Román y Reyes was a safe man for the presidential palace: "Some day I may meet Argüello in hell, and then I'll give him an uppercut...
...images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve." But: "Look," explained Faulkner to the New York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free...
...done better under the circumstances. Even their best sources had failed them, apparently led astray by the polls. Said one last week: "If a professional like Jake Arvey thinks his Democrats will lose Illinois by up to half a million votes, how can a reporter know that they'll...