Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Days later, he met Pirogov in a bar on upper Broadway. The embassy had promised, Barsov said, that if they would both go home, there would be no reprisal and no trial. He asked Pirogov to stop work on the book he was writing, offered to get him the money to pay back whatever advances had been made. Pirogov was scornful. As they left, Pirogov said: "Tell them thanks for their offer of money and for finding such a fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes...
With the 1950 political campaign still more than a year away, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had taken to the hustings. The very first day he got down to business; a committee met him at the Cloverleaf and escorted him to a nearby hall where he addressed 350 delegates to the state convention of the Polish Legion of American Veterans...
...barriers, British exporters still had ample opportunities. The trouble was that the British had not tried hard enough to exploit them. He put an accurate finger on one reason for British woes: British business had preferred to sell its wares to nondollar markets, where demand was high and Britain met only soft competition...
...will he had written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem...
...makes his characters' conversation as credible as if it were overheard, whether they are talking in a brothel or planning a dinner at home. His gallery is extensive (housewives, doctors, politicians, businessmen, lovers, prostitutes) and the people seem as true and alive as if the reader had just met them. But Novelist O'Hara seems satisfied with only a casual-meeting knowledge of his people. Reading A Rage to Live is almost like exchanging slightly malicious gossip about one's home town over a drink in a bar. Everyone is discussed but no one is really understood...