Word: lot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned a lot about transportation, just the same, as he shuttled from railroading to one small trucking job after another, and he spent his spare time and money on books-the Bible, Shakespeare, and everything he could get on transport. By the time he had reached middle age, ambitious Jim Glynn seemed to be highballing down the road to his goal...
Western observers, who had been closely watching the evolution of the Moscow-Peking Axis (TIME, Dec. 19)-and who had spent a lot of time wondering whether or not Mao might turn Tito and break with Moscow-could only speculate about the consequences of the Moscow meeting. All the West knew with certainty last week was that the two most successful living Communists, masters of almost a quarter of the earth's land and more than a quarter of its people, had met, and that both were sworn enemies of the West. That was quite enough to know...
...cigars to Britain. In Chicago Mrs. Herman Pierce was preparing a Christmas parcel for the daughter of her late father's niece in Germany. Mrs. Pierce and her factory-worker husband were not well off. But "we can do without a little," she explained, "to help them a lot. We're all here on earth together...
...like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at The Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament duly ratified...
...dialogue is a lot less convincing, though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin...