Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco beamed some more when he read Admiral Conolly's farewell statement: "The Spanish people are proud and stubborn. So are we . . . The Spanish people and the Spanish nation merit our sympathetic understanding and friendship...
...brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
Actually, Trevelyan brought a good deal more. Good history, he believed, was never all science; it had to be literature, too. To be read, it had to be fascinating; it was the duty of the historian to make it so. He could not do this without being himself part poet. For "in that strange relation of past and present, poetry is always inherent, even in . . . Greek potsherds and Roman stones, in Manor rolls and Parliamentary reports...
...youth in Wales, Sam Higginbottom was sure that the last thing he wanted to be was a missionary ("Not for Sam Higginbottom-no, sir"). All the same, he read his Bible carefully and decided that "the attitude of Jesus was strict and uncompromising. He would not accept the position of being Lord of half my life-He wanted it all . . . I argued and tried to think of some way to get around this demand, but whichever way I turned, there He was . . . At long last I concluded that there would be no peace of mind for me unless I yielded...
Last week, one of Lisa's typical days began at 7 a.m., when she arose at her converted gardener's cottage in Muttontown^ Long Island. She breakfasted in bed, listened to her eight-year-old daughter Mia read her lessons. She drove 35 miles to Manhattan in her red-upholstered Studebaker convertible. On the road, she was something of a hazard. An amateur plane pilot, she considers any speed under 70 m.p.h. dull. She fretted at whistling truck drivers and ogling motorists/'There will be an accident for sure," she said, "and those silly men will...