Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna, Clark leads a simple, hardworking life. His wife Maurine is working on an occupation diary, and preparing to organize a U.S. wives' club. His daughter Ann, 19, and his son William, 20, are both in Austria. His pet cocker spaniel Pal is now famed through his master's bitter crack: "Here are the Russians with 150,000 troops and here I am with my cocker spaniel...
Orwell wonders how a 20th Century master of these "swindles and perversions" might have written this passage in Ecclesiastes...
...boff him, Billy loses his head. When he loses his head, I got him." The fight odds were 13-to-5 in Louis' favor and never wavered when a millionaire Texas oilman bet $300,000 on Challenger Conn. The gamblers had seen Billy, the dancing master, outbox Joe for twelve rounds back in 1941, then fall from one murderous punch...
...lost. Three years they were, and this was the struggle to recapture them. Summer School, Army credits, maybe a few other angles that would get him out of school at a respectable age. He thought he was behind them, his old roommates kid sister who was now getting her Master's and the gal from Newton who had a six-months old infant. And even the guy from the next entry, now an English A section man. He was way behind, he thought and he'd have to catch up. Vag knew it would mean work and for a moment...
...reunite master and pupil, the Rumanian Government flew Menuhin, his wife and two children, from Zurich in a special plane. In a Bucharest movie house Enesco, now 64 and bent with arthritis, played piano to Yehudi's fiddle, and conducted the Rumanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In eight days they played seven concerts, one of them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge...