Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life than he had the talent to pay for." He paid well with his talent for all he got from life, and has left his heritage as proof for readers. You didn't think it worthwhile to even mention Tom's second book, Of Time and the River (1935), which contains more of his powerful passages than anything else he wrote. What "drove" Tom to write is best expressed by him in his book of letters and more pronouncedly in his Letters to His Mother. It's all there for the reader to grasp, whether Turnbull covers...
...more determined exercisers who reported for our Essay is Boston Correspondent Bill Marmon, who three mornings a week at 7:15 takes off from his apartment near Harvard Square, jogs across the Charles River on the Weeks Me morial Footbridge, trots on to the Harvard Graduate School of Busi ness Administration, which is about halfway on his route. There he pauses for 30 pushups, 30 situps, and occasionally a dozen chin-ups on a convenient tree branch. Then he heads home, sprinting the last 200 yards to "make the blood flow into the fin gers and toes and lungs...
...source of allied discontent is plain. The winding 400-mile boundary is, from a Communist point of view, delightfully permeable. At its northern end, opposite Vietnam's central highlands, it runs through deep tropical jungle, uninhabited and immune to air observation. Its southern reaches, along the Mekong River, are under five feet of water during the monsoons...
...inevitably some voices proved less fortunate standing alone than others. One baritone in particular had egregious difficulties with intonation, singing either sharp or totally out of tune. Nonetheless he more than redeemed himself in Akh, Ty Step Shirokaja, that emotionally charged and typically Russian hymn to the Volga River. By and large the soloists were excellent and served less to highlight particular individuals than to underscore the power and expertise of the group as a whole...
...years ago so that he could treat clients and their families to weekend jaunts up the Allegheny; he has already ordered a 43-ft. replacement with even more room. Mystery Writer Erie Stanley Gardner likes houseboats so much that he operates two of them on California's Sacramento River. "They're my floating offices, the only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort," says Gardner. But why two? "At night we moor them about 50 ft. apart, and the women take over one and the men the other," he explains...