Word: loth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loth to become engaged in a struggle with the President," Paul Douglas said uneasily. "But in this matter, God helping me, I can do no other." In this solemn fashion, Illinois' Fair Dealing Senator served notice last week that he would take his fight with Harry Truman to the Senate floor. A half gale was building up into a hurricane...
Vardis Fisher's latest volume, the sixth in his ficto-stenographic history of civilization, is less a novel than a pedantic, prurient diatribe against one of the best-publicized kings Israel ever had. Solomon (loth Century B.C.) is presented as a sort of Old Testament Sammy Click with chin whiskers, a tough little opportunist who elbows his way into the big money, marries a glamour girl (Khate, an Egyptian princess), and hires a frustrated poet to ghost his copy-even, it would seem, such copy as the Book of Proverbs...
...prisoners said that the loth had been ordered to seize Taegu after blocking the Andong-Taegu rail & road line. They never came near that ambitious goal...
...shadowy world of loth Century legend, there were also the Duke Haroux and Childe Harolde, and the origin of the clameur probably is shared by some grouping or syncrisis of several of these noble characters...
...conquered by the Chinese, who had left their culture indelibly behind.† Through the last half of the 19th. Century, the French converted Indo-China into a tight, profitable colonial monopoly. They explored its fever-laden jungles, lofty ranges, great river valleys. They discovered its antiquities, including the majestic loth Century towers of Angkor Wat in northern Cambodia. They wrote about its mandarins, its Buddhist temples and Confucian family life...