Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good evening," said a dark girl in a black-and-white kimono. She had crept up quietly and she carried a small green order pad. There was only one other person in the resturant--a pudgy, bespectacled occidental in gray flannel, with a bright silk vest. I was seated in front...
Council members were also interested to know "what does someone have to gain as a director of HSA, Inc?" Burke replied, "I'm not sure a person should have anything to gain as a director," but Stone countered, "You're quite right; we do get something out of it. There's a tremendous sense of accomplishment and pride. There's no graft, we get no salary...
...last week to make one of his periodic excursions to Paris. Typically, De Gaulle's utterances had a Delphic quality. Said he: "You tell me that the political men of all groups are unanimous in affirming that only De Gaulle can find a solution. But name me one person who has said so in Parliament." Then he added: "I could not make peace in Algeria without a blank check from Parliament, and this the present regime would not grant...
...countergambits. The wise antirepairman knows, for example, that he must never, never deal with underlings; he must always go straight to the top-write the company president. One St. Louis man gets super service by calling the repair-shop owner, threatening to come down and "punch the first person I see in the nose." Others try the food gambit, laying on sandwiches, beer or liquor for the repairman. And when all else fails, a wife can call the repairman's wife. Says one Milwaukeean: "I asked her how she'd like to keep house without any kitchen water...
...sake is fine, but if a writer is going to have any lasting value and interest, he must have something to say. He must have had to think during the course of his life. If a person is exposed to the values of conflicting cultures, he is forced to reexamine his ideas and decide either to reject, accept, or modify his previous values. If one rejects, there is a need to justify one's actions, often in writing. If one accepts the values of the original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values...