Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pursuit of the perpetrators and their motives would certainly continue. The financial profits clearly had to be a powerful incentive for such a reckless project. A desire to create some sympathy for the entire Nazi movement and to humanize Hitler seemed likely aims too. But the sad saga of the truly incredible diaries raised troubling questions about how such an implausible scheme had been taken so seriously, however briefly. The mere appearance of the volumes should have warned even the most gullible observer: all 62 books precisely alike, despite their span of 13 years; all their pages unstained, unworn, although...
...children's author illustrator Maurice Sendak. Really Rosie inflates and links the sparse content of three or four Sendak sketches in an insultingly arbitrary attempt at narrative. How, after all, could one write a script realistically incorporating. "Chicken Soup with Rice," an alphabet song, a Dracula sequence, and the saga of I Don't-Care Pierre? And why would anyone really want...
...York Stock Exchange floor a few days ago, traders eagerly shook his hand and told him that he had fundamentally altered the merger climate by proving that a takeover target could fight back and survive. At least three books are now being written on the whole saga, and several business schools are preparing courses on it. Pownall has turned down dozens of speaking invitations, including an offer to address the West Virginia state legislature...
...fateful day, though, the saga crossed the line into soap opera. As the letters were sent, rumors leaked out through the Daily Princeloman that the admissions committee was so deadlocked over the starlet's application that it had finally abdicated responsibility for the choice. Instead, James Wickenden, dean of admissions gave himself a few more hours. He flew to Florida, where Brooke was staying, bearing two possible fates--one letter of acceptance and one of rejection...
Goldman and Fuller first told Charlie Company's saga in an excellent 1981 Newsweek cover story, the longest in the weekly's history. There, they explored the men a harrowing exploits in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 and their subsequent cold homecoming. Charlie Company the book is an expansion of that effort Eleven more members of the original company of 120 have resurfaced. And the authors have added previously unpublished material from their original interviews...