Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentimental favorite. His fellow Armenians kept their champion supplied with fresh cherries from home to bolster his diet and cheered him so boisterously at one point that authorities had to draw the curtains on the stage to allow the competitors to concentrate. Petrosian, who likes to stroll about or read the newspaper between moves in less important matches, slipped off to watch a hockey game between championship rounds, a practice unheard of for competing chess champions, who supposedly must keep their minds riveted to the board...
...price of a sojourn at Cottontail Ranch averages $20. The four prostitutes range in age from 22 to 24, are on call twelve hours a day, and split their earnings with Landlady Richards. "When business is slow," says one girl, "we read a lot. Sometimes we play Scrabble. Every day Beverly leads us in calisthenics." But business is rarely slow, according to federal tax agents, who monitor the books. "It's a real challenge for our agents," says J. C. Muyres, Internal Revenue Service official in Las Vegas. "The houses are cash operations with no set prices...
...Mosley carries his argument: that history provided moments of decision, and most of the choices were flubbed-out of stupidity, cowardice and petty self-interest. Churchill's words after Munich today read flamboyant but true: "The government had to choose between shame and war. They chose shame and they will get war." Curiously, Hitler once pointed to the same moral-that one's character finally becomes one's destiny. When he discovered how formidable the Czech bunkers might have proved, he said: "What does it matter how strong the concrete is so long as the will...
...perilously heavy burden of this thriller is that two dolphins have been taught to speak and read English. They are tricked by orgspooks of a U.S. in telligence agency into blowing up an American warship in order to goad the country into starting World War III. The dolphins, friendly and lovable Beasts, are deeply hurt when they learn of the deception, and conclude that human beings are not worth much...
...very long sections of the book justly given over to praise for the dolphins' character and accomplishments, only two bits of dolphin lore escape specific mention. The first is that dolphins seem to be pompous moralizers. The second is that dolphins have not only learned to read and speak English, they have learned to write novels, although not very well...