Word: settledness
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BOSTON—In the third inning of yesterday’s game against Northeastern, shortstop Jeff Stoeckel blasted a pitch off the fence in left field. The senior sprinted toward first, but as he turned the corner toward second he quickly retreated and settled for a single.
After dropping out of high school and traveling around the country to muse over philosophical questions, Gilbert settled in Denver. By age 18, he was married and had a son and was writing science fiction stories on his typewriter. While he received encouraging feedback and sold some stories, he was...
That mood eventually settled on Heston. In the '60s he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and after Robert Kennedy's death, he called for gun control. But like many young liberals, he aged into conservatism. In the '80s he became a prime spokesman for right-wing causes and in...
Everything must come to an end, and the Democrats’ drum-roll is becoming more frantic with each passing day. Political pundits are honing in on the ‘mathematical’ probability that Obama’s growing delegate lead will spell victory after or even before...
Dassin directed some important, and still fascinating, noirish films in the late 40s: Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway. Then he got blacklisted by Hollywood and settled in Paris. After four idle years Dassin achieved international renown with Rififi; he won the Director prize at the 1965 Cannes Film...