Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must look." Vienna-born Dr. Raab could not care less how he looks so long as he is warding off what he calls "loafer's heart." Dr. Raab never rides in a car or elevator if he can avoid it, wears out six or seven pairs of sole leathers a year. Loafer's heart, he believes, is sapping modern man's strength...
Enobarbus displays the noble loyalty we associate with Horatio in Hamlet, the Bastard in King John, and the Earl of Kent in King Lear. His demise is the sole truly tragic aspect of this play; but one cannot call Antony a tragedy about Enobarbus as one can call Julius Caesar a tragedy about Brutus. Donald Davis' traversal of Enobarbus' famous Barge narration is not up to par, but his later scenes of repentance and death are powerful acting Rae Allen (Charmian), Will Geer (Agrippa), Claude Woolman (Menas), and Richard Waring (Sooth-sayer) are commendable in smaller parts; but Patrick Hires...
...Canadian Parliament's least happy duty is to act as a divorce court for the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland. It is an arrangement originally made as a concession to populous Roman Catholic Quebec, which frowns on divorce and declines to establish a court of its own. The sole ground for a parliamentary divorce is adultery. Over the years, as the number of petitions grew (to more than 600 this year), Ottawa tacitly winked at its suspicion that Montreal detective agencies were doing a lucrative trade arranging the evidence. But last week an aggrieved husband named William Eccles blew...
...news gathering, Allen was all business. He was usually the first to arrive for work and the last to leave. At 4:30 one morning in 1949, patrolling an emergency meeting of the territorial legislature, gearing to cover an impending dock strike. Editor Allen took pity on the sole surviving staffer and chauffeured him home. "Now, don't come in till 6:30," he said indulgently-then drove briskly back to work...
Fairchild takes no salary from any of his companies, believes that he should be on the same basis as other stockholders. "My sole objective is not to make money but to do something that is a substantial improvement over what has been done before, because if you do that you will make money in the long...