Word: second
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With titles in tackle football and cross country, and second places in soccer and touch, Dunster House now leads the race for the Straus Trophy with 390 points. Eliot is second with 332 1/2, and Kirkland third with...
...Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed Church in America), LeSourd's editorial superior on Guideposts; in Leesburg...
Married. Whitelaw Reid, 46, a director and onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; and Elizabeth Ann Brooks, 27, executive secretary of the Fairfield Foundation (which promotes international cultural exchange); he for the second time, she for the first; in New Rochelle...
...nothing on the assumption that Rommel was alerted. Either Rommel's mind was on the grey suede shoes, or. as Author Ryan argues, his own estimate of Allied intentions led him to discount the warning and leave the front. On the evening of June 5, Meyer caught the second part of the message: "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone [Wounding my heart with monotonous languor]." Following this broadcast, Canaris had told Meyer, the invasion would begin within 48 hours. When the excited Meyer burst into the Fifteenth Army chief's bridge game, General Hans von Salmuth...
Mere Mannerisms. Half a dozen variations on this theme help to dispel any notion of Dickens as irrepressibly comic. Other "best stories" of Editor Zabel's choosing include second-rate ghost thrillers and third-rate detective stories. At novel length, Dickens could create memorable caricatures, e.g., Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Madame Defarge. In the short stories, his characters are mere mannerisms. In the novels, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller produce idiosyncratic dialogue; in the short stories there is only an endless chatty...