Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in a tiny, weatherbeaten shack back of the sand dunes, and we can peek at the ocean by stretching our necks a bit. Our neighbors are a motley crew: mostly men who seek only escape from their pasts, their responsibilities, or their sins. Whatever the reason, they've found some sort of peace here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger...
...Blame. When democratic government was restored to Peru in 1945, the Apristas emerged as the country's most powerful political party. Rightists refused to work with them or to trust them, and the Apristas, by turning again to violence, gave reason for this distrust. It was inevitable that the Callao revolt should be pinned on them and on Haya de la Torre, APRA's founding father...
Eventually he got right down to the point: "The theater ought to be a number of handsome things that living itself ought to be in the first place. Is it possible for living or the theater to be these handsome things? Absolutely not, but is that any reason not to give it a whirl anyway...
...Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has the answer. The Soviet menace is of such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers on the increasing pressure on behalf of Franco by our Latin American allies...
Whatever the reason for this peculiar distribution, West Point officials have not shown their weekend guests much of their traditional and beloved courtesy. A visiting student certainly has a more legitimate claim to good seats than the general public. And a Harvard man ought to be just as good a $4.00 risk as the next...