Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biographer Ward's own opinion is that Chesterton's "ready acceptance of life's normal pleasures" rules him out of saintly ranks. But it does not put him among those who, precisely because they "fail to reach sanctity . . . pour out upon us the vials of their gloom." Chesterton ranks, she believes, among the "spiritual geniuses" of the human race-"to which," as G.K. once observed, "so many of my readers belong...
Calls came from Buffalo, Rochester and Utica, with each caller offering to sell'her a copy of Ten Nights for $2,500. "That night," says Miss Bender, "I couldn't even eat my dinner." Next day the confusion grew worse. Letters began to pour in by the hundreds, and finally Miss Bender had to get a secretary to handle them all. Meanwhile, "things at school were just at a standstill-everybody was so busy answering the phone...
...story concerning the attitude of Pakistan over our piddling offer of $8 to $12 million in Point Four aid [an official source from Karachi said they were "insulted"]. TIME, and the American public, should be insulted that we have offered Pakistan this paltry sum when we are willing to [pour] $50 million down the drain in India (because Nehru plays footie with Mao and Joe), and another $24 million to Mossadegh's clique, who are playing footie with each other, waiting for their tanker to come in ... India, land of muddy rivers and muddy liberalism, led by Nehru alone...
Korean war veterans may soon begin to pour into the University at the expense of the government. One disabled Korea veteran has already registered in the freshman class this term, under a new extension of the World War II G.I Bill of Rights...
Defeat into Victory. In World War II, allied bombs just about demolished the Ullstein block along the Kochstrasse, but printing presses in a skyscraper near the Tempelhof airport were little damaged. They continued to pour forth Goebbels' Das Reich and the screaming Der Angriff until the end. The Red army carted off two of the plant's finest presses, but when the U.S. took over the sector, the remaining presses still made it the biggest printing plant in Europe. It rolled out the U.S. Army's Allgemeine Zeitung and later five other West Berlin dailies...