Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relit his pipe and turned slightly. He could see the Yard now, and what an unpleasant sight it was. Beneath him a couple appeared to be conducting some sort of pagan rite which struck Vag as being obviously suggestive...
...Paume (literally, game of palm) was a royal indoor tennis court built by Napoleon III in 1862. The game, known as jeu de courte paume, derived from a sort of handball to which racquets were added, was for centuries the rage in France. In the 1890s the game lost popularity to English lawn tennis...
...booming popularity astonishes Publisher Gaines. Says he: "All I can say to explain it is something glib like, 'Everyone is under a strain, and some sort of comic relief is a good thing." If we knew exactly what we were doing right, we'd do more...
Mother & Freud. Landa likes to think of himself as a sort of corporate purgative, says: "The stock goes up when I clean the bastards out." But he has found it profitable to fight most of his proxy battles on the side of management. Rarely before has he tried to take over in a corporate fight. Usually he makes his money by buying stock cheap in a sick company, selling out after he has done his bit to make the company and stock strong. "You don't always have to do everything for a fast buck," he says...
Always Ségur keeps before his eye the vision of the Grande Armée as a sort of international brigade marching to liberate (among others) the Poles from an Asiatic despotism. It was indeed not a French national force but a great group of armies-half a million men from 17 nations...