Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trees got leaves again, I knew it was a year." The more assured he was that at last he was among people who wanted to help him, the more glibly Gerald talked. When his mother was brought before him, he shrank from her. Cried he: "I'll never love her again...
...daughter. Her husband had deserted her on & off, and left her for good in 1937. In one of the intervals when he was off, she had given birth to Gerald by a man now dead. She decided that no one must ever know. She went regularly to confession, but never told her biggest...
...someone different and shameful. To anyone who might catch a glimpse of Gerald playing on the third-floor back porch (dressed in girl's clothing), he was Mrs. Sullivan's own daughter. He had the run of the apartment when the family was home, but he was never allowed out on the street, never went to school...
...atomic attack at close range would cost so much, and would interfere so greatly with what we have come to regard as normal living, that it is unacceptable. The only alternative is to accept a 'calculated risk'-the military euphemism for taking a chance . . . Absolute safety has never existed this side of the grave...
Charley Gray, like so many others of Mr. Marquand's fine, upstanding young men, is nevertheless a pretty cold fish. He does the right thing at the right time, has perfect control over his emotions, and never makes mistakes; one gets the impression that while he may feel himself caught in the rat-race of modern business society it is for him the most suitable of all possible ruts...