Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claim to have heard the lotus. But last week, like the others, Professor Lotus himself was listening again in the Tokyo swamps. He heard nothing. But there were those who did. Some told him the sound was like "kotsu." Some thought it was more like "quew," very softly spoken...
...final words of the book, spoken between Scobie's wife and his priest, seem to indicate where Author Greene's feelings lie: "Father Rank said, 'It may seem an odd thing to say-when a man's as wrong as he was-but I think, from what I saw of him, that he really loved God.' 'He certainly loved no one else,' she said. 'And you may be in the right of it there, too,' Father Rank replied...
...most important military refugee from Czechoslovakia since the Communist coup turned up in Heidelberg last week. He was slight, soft-spoken General Antonin Hasal, 55, military adviser to President Eduard Benes until Communist Leader Klement Gottwald took over the presidency in June. Hasal, who at 25 was a general in the Czech Legion in Russia in World War I and fought with other Czech refugees in France in 1940, began his third exile with an interview. Excerpts...
...them knew a runner who got so nervous before a race that he was afraid to walk down steps and had to be carried by teammates. At those times, Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican quarter-miler, walks around in a stupor, unable to speak when spoken to. Sweden's famed miler, Lennart Strand, gets absentminded; he recently went out for a race without his running shirt...
Snap Judgments. The head and principal builder is dapper, soft-spoken Charles Allen Jr. (45), who has learned the tricks of his trade during 30 years in Wall Street. Born in New York, the third of seven children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street...