Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University takes great pains checking on the accuracy of such applications. In a case in which an applicant for a scholarship attempts to prove his relationship to the nephew of a man who died in 1698, the scholarship office has a job on its hands...
Butler Charley is an ambitious rogue with a bad conscience, a double man who is torn between his desire to make hay while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir...
Stalin was the one important Bolshevik who was not an intellectual, a fact which seems to have filled him with poisonous envy. The other leaders had reputations as brilliant writers and orators, he began as a clumsy writer and tepid speaker. But he thought of himself as a man of the people (his parents had been serfs) and a practical organizer who would transform the intellectuals' fantasies into reality. He concentrated on building a personal political machine-first in the underground and then in the Soviet state. In the end, he liquidated the intellectuals. Deutscher sees this...
...guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that...
...economics will decide Murray's course, whether or not he is correct about the pension question. He may or may not be right; but he won't have a chance to reach his decision on those grounds. It is unfortunate for the entire labor movement that this man, who has played this one hard but fairly and wisely all the way, should be boxed in by his own people...