Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only walked a few paces when I stumbled upon an M.P. sitting on a sailor who had passed out in front of the Boston Public Library. The world surged into my stomach and I suddenly saw Tides of Passion as it really was. For $1.50 I had escaped for three full hours (there were several short subjects). Escape, pure and simple. At fifty cents an hour, what more could...
...nowhere, I had the word, and the word was round. It was the time, and I set off along quiet streets--past the football field, looking for kicks; past country gardens, digging the carrots and onions; and then ahead of me I saw the curving, calling, mystic, roaring highway. And it was the time, and Schaefer was my kind of beer, and I was gone...
Under the Regional Scholarship Program, alumni often saw their donations go towards scholarships for students far from their own part of the country, and were sometimes hesitant to make donations...
Although, Lodge noted, Roosevelt saw "no conflict between righteousness and physical power," he was "neither a reckless warmonger, nor an overbearing imperialist...
...autobiographical Black Boy (TIME, March 5, 1945), Author Wright described how, from a horrible childhood in the South, he fled first to Chicago, then New York, finally to Paris.* He was an easy mark for the Communists but eventually saw through them and earned their lasting enmity. In The Long Dream the Mississippi Negro boy is called Rex "Fishbelly" Tucker, but so far as the story's essentials are concerned, his name might be Richard Wright. Fishbelly's father, an undertaker, once taught him an important truth as he buried the mutilated body of a young Negro...