Word: sobbed
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...Sob Stuff." In his spare time he hooks rugs ("It's therapeutic"), works on portraits of his 22 grandchildren, has designed banners for the university's schools and colleges. He has an enthusiasm for heraldry and quill pen writing, once spent hours designing a silver box for a waitress who was retiring from one of the residential colleges. Last week, as news of his own retirement spread, he was absorbed in another sort of activity-reading the scores of letters from former students whom he had "set on fire." "Mostly sob stuff!" said Theodore Sizer gruffly...
...People: Pope Pius XII ("he has the bone hurting handshake of a farm boy") and the late Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger-who gave Biographer Bishop (The Mark Hellinger Story) early, well-heeded lessons in Hearstmanship. Sample Hellinger commandments to Bishop: "Use only short words"; "the way to write a sob story is to be callous"; "before writing, always read a few hundred words of your favorite author...
...Sob Sisters Under the Skin. Editors and writers share an evangelical faith that confession stories help their readers to solve their own problems. Gushes a top-selling Denver freelancer: "Lots of girls receive their first experience through these stories. I just know that many of them have learned how to react to love situations through what we write...
...episode in which L'l Abner wriggles out of Daisy Mae's arms into those of a jackass, to the last where he is "hopelessly, permanently, (maybe) married," nothing is certain in this uselessly enjoyable book where all the natives of Dogpatch gleefully race "their (gulp!) destiny to a (sob) stalemate...
...everyday preposterous situation. Reel One: meet alluring Anita Ekberg, being flown out of Las Vegas to become a B-girl in Boca Grande, South America. Reels Two and Three: meet eight other passengers who will fly to Boca Grande with her, including a vodka-drinking pilot (Yes ... (sob), she was killed that night by a truck...