Word: recouping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vilest Practice. But that night Johnson moved in gallantly to help Kennedy recoup. John McClellan's amendment, he pointed out to Southerners, was a Southerner's booby trap. If the Secretary of Labor were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write...
...this atmosphere arrived an unlikely heroine: a strong-jawed, 26-year-old matron named Anna Cora Mowatt. Anna's lawyer-husband had broken down physically and financially, and Anna blithely set out to recoup by writing a play. Fashion, her maiden effort, ran a respectable string of performances at the Park in 1845, and launched Author Mowatt on a heady career as an actress. It also gave the U.S. its first home-grown play of any success...
Joel Landau failed even to make the finals in the hurdles, and University record holder Henry Abbot threw the shot well below his usual standard. But now exams are over, and the varsity can still recoup its losses...
...succumbed to, and it must go beneath the killing froth of a marriage to its dark, neurotic lees. It must convey someone the more disenchanted for having first been so strangely romantic, and it might well suggest a gifted writer's self-delusion that memory would afterward recoup with words what had been squandered on wine and women. The twists and turns along Halliday's road down remain largely uncharted. But The Disenchanted does not adulterate or gloss over. It treats writers as writers, Hollywood as Hollywood, truth as truth. It has a sense of the real thing...
...found his talent depleted, his nerves unstrung, his wife Zelda mad, and he faced a literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across two dinner tables in a crowded restaurant he saw handsome Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham and said, "I like you." There was to be another act for Fitzgerald, after...