Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evil Is Inefficient. A fulltime novelist from then on, Shute clung to his methodical engineering habits. From 9:30 a.m. to noon, he typed at his manuscript, seated at a secondhand rolltop desk that his father had given him. A year was par for a novel. As critics and readers quickly learned, his characters behaved with a realistic mixture of human strength and frailty. Storyteller Shute was peculiarly immune to the lilt and color of prose, but he fashioned his sentences with pane-of-glass clarity...
Described by coach Jack Barnaby as "one of the best teams we'll play all year," Williams is ranked on a par with the defending Intercollegiate champion, Navy. Having defeated both these powers, the Crimson has yet to face only two serious title contenders, Yale and Princeton. Both matches will be in February...
...benumbed by his surround ings that he fancies he has caught an entirely new disease, Fisher's Yawn. When his earthbound parents mulishly refuse to, understand his plans for becoming a scriptwriter in London, he retaliates in his imagination by inventing a set of properly sophisticated, London-based par ents, including a frightfully U mother who merely looks up from her solitaire when he comes home drunk and drawls indulgently: ''Oh God, how dreary...