Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, don't get hard feelings about what I tell you, cause I tell you like your mother would, but you can't stay serious about this girl, understan? Now this other girl you going to meet will be the girl you marry after you travel some...
During his stay at Harvard, McCord has found time to work at the Norfolk Prison, at the Wiltwick School for delinquents, and in the Cambridge-Somerville Project. From the latter experience, he published papers on alcoholism and Negro intelligence and is presently preparing a book based on the Project. He and his wife, Joan McCord expanded and revised his Ph. D. thesis which was published in 1956 as "Psychopathy and Delinquency...
...through murder. As the efficient Monique drowns the wife in a bathtub and then makes her appear to drown in a stream-a Lady Macbeth superintending an Ophelia's fale -a scared Fernand quivers like jelly and wobbles like a tenpin. And then, when he can hardly stay on his feet, he suddenly discovers that...
...bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty should deal only with New York Irishmen. Even when he went back "to where I had never been," i.e., to Ireland, he found that to his ears Gaelic sounded like Yiddish; and that the stay-at-home Irish-unlike their New York brothers who are constantly obliged to make themselves heard in the surrounding din-talk softly to each other...
...guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them lying in the street ... It is a phenomenon like avalanches in snowy countries. You have to live with the thing. You get used...