Word: nought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playful, rope-wise males promptly tried to untie her, only to be trampled in the rush. Miss Morgan escaped, left her assailants nought but knots, then lost the suit to the police...
John Grandin is an even more sympathetic figure than the Don Birnam of Lost Weekend fame. For Birnam, there was hope-and Alcoholics Anonymous. For Grandin, nothing. I have traveled extensively and have met many souls kindred to John Grandin. For them, there is nought but continual suffering -unless they choose to become the recipients of the total disgust of their fellowmen...
...their seismic passion rocked the country. "Oh wild betrothal, startling and swift . . .!" Gossips recounted how he had ". , . shamed me in a room in Plymouth . . . carried me [away] by force-[that] I ... lived as his mistress for three months-[but] Richard and I, in the gladness of our hearts, did nought but laugh...
...years to accomplish. Optimistic cockneys say it would be feasible "if Hitler had done a bit more damage." Asked the cost, Architect Lutyens replied airily: "Oh, just about what two days of war cost!" (approx. $100,000,000). Said a Royal Academy committeeman: "If you add another nought, it would be about right...
...have ample evidence that the present method . . . results in too little production too late. . . ." > NPA's last point was in effect a jab at Franklin Roosevelt, who up to this week had yet to clarify and centralize defense responsibility: "The best of intentions will come to nought if it is not clear who is to plan and for what things, and who is to execute...