Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Fields. To survive, many a planemaker has diversified to other fields. Hawker Siddeley builds cars (the Sapphire). Others make boats, harvesters, computers, plastic products. Those that hope to develop advanced planes are working together. De Havilland, Fairey and Hunting are jointly developing a new medium-range jet, the D.H. 121. English Electric and Vickers are developing a supersonic bomber...
...have shot, whipped or choked the villain straightway. But a man of the husband's generation intends no violence. Instead, he wants to stretch the lovers on a psychological rack, then leave the actor there and reclaim his wife. As a starter, he hires a private detective to make keyhole photographs. For divorce proceedings? "Mais non. For the family album...
...their literary leanings to appreciate the tales. They move with remarkable smoothness, but their authors cared not a kumquat about probability or credibility in the modern sense. The plots are supported by coincidence, and the passage of years is treated as offhandedly as a spilled cup of tea. What makes them interesting centuries later is a mixture of lusty humanity and shrewd weighing of human nature, an awareness that life can be hard, balanced by an insistence that only virtue can make it tolerable...
...Harvard the Catholic primarily experiences indifference. He may be moved at times by some of the amazing statements various of the faculty seem compelled to make; but these he can answer, if only to himself. As always it is more baffling to cope with the indifference, for it assumes a prior judgment; it rests on an implied assumption that Catholicism is by nature phony; that Catholicism is patronizing, and assumes the air of a father who won't tell the child there is no Santa Claus. Catholics are certainly not despised, but in general they are respected only despite their...
...beliefs is almost essential to every intelligent being, or else the beliefs will not expand as the individual develops, and will soon become empty and useless. Thus every Catholic should possess an examined faith, and he should let others learn from it, share it. But first he must make it real and alive for himself...