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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back of the neck. He was standing there with the end of the gun on the floor-I crawled over-he said he was gonna kill me-then I grabbed the bottom of the gun-I reached up. I hit him, I shot him-I didn't mean to-I wanted to get away-he was standing there with the end-I grabbed and he wouldn't-and I just pulled the trigger-I didn't want to shoot him-I was trying to get the gun away so he wouldn't shoot me any more...
...Harris "failed to discuss important aspects" of Eisenhower's policy, including reform of the Council of Economic Advisors, tax reform, farm policy, and foreign trade policy. He praised the Administration's management of the budget and said that although "growth of indebtedness should be carefully watched," it does not mean that present prosperity is "sham...
...mean, what is the Ivy League going to do to keep ahead, to be different? You know, since everyone began to take up the Oxford grey, it's been dropped by the really shoe people. We want to find out what the leaders, the style-setters, are going to come up with next...
...course, I don't mean what you're wearing now, but if you were trying to impress someone (I don't know what business you're going into) but, say, a publisher--what kind of shirt would you wear...
...mean the clubs," we said. "Yes," he said, obviously relieved that at last we were getting somewhere. "What is the best club?" We guessed Porcellian. He asked where it was. We told him where we thought it was, and he started for the door, shuddering as he passed a serene young man wearing a starched shirt, with neither buttons nor tabs. We tried to warn him that he might have trouble getting into Porcellian. But he was already gone...