Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Tall, solemn, methodical, pedagogic, Dulles has a lawyer's passion for detail, a lawyer's caution. He and his wife Janet have three children: John, a mining engineer; Lillias, now Mrs. Robert Hinshaw; Avery, who entered the Roman Catholic Church after service in the Navy in World War II and later became a Jesuit. For relaxation, Dulles has long favored sailing and fishing in Lake Ontario, where he has his own island...
...Such passion, common to both sides since Charlemagne's time, has been hotting up for weeks-ever since the Saar's French Puppet-Premier Johannes ("Jo-ho") Hoffmann announced that elections will be held next Sunday. Superficially, the vote will decide whether Joho Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or the Social Democrats will dominate the Saar Landtag for the next few years; actually, it will demonstrate whether the 968,000 Saarlanders want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days...
...Manhattan, at 25, she was broke and developing "a perfect passion for earning money, don't care much how I earn it." A fling at acting didn't help, but soon her stories under the name of Nancy Boyd broke the pinch of poverty. By 1920 magazines were competing for her poetry: "Oh, Lud! Have you noticed how Vanity Fair is featuring me of late? They just can't seem to go to print without me. And the New Republic is writing to me in longhand begging for a crumb of verse." From that time...
...book, The Wonderful Country, Author Lea comes a cropper at that traditionally exacting hurdle, novel No. 2, Because The Wonderful Country is an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion, it is easy to respect it and wait with interest for No. 3. Lea's wonderful country is, of course, the Southwest, in particular "where Texas and New Mexico meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason...
...slept beneath the sky on grass mat and saddle, ate only once a day, native style. To keep off mosquitoes, he often lived in a swath of thick toweling. All the while, day & night, he followed the herds through the stinking swamps, disdaining snakes, crocs and insects in his passion for pachyderms...