Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost died of the flu during World War I-Author Porter describes how she snatched her life, and with it her independence, out of the jaws of death. "Death is death, she said. Silenced she sank easily through deeps under deeps of darkness until she lay like a stone at the farthest bottom of life, no longer aware yet alive with a peculiar lucidity and coherence; a minute fiercely burning particle of being that knew itself alone, that relied upon nothing beyond itself, being composed entirely of the stubborn will to live. Trust me, the hard unwinking angry point...
THOSE WHO LOVE by Irving Stone. 662 pages. Doubleday...
...this long, painstakingly researched biographical novel of John and Abigail Adams, Novelist Stone has had the good judgment to stick to the historical facts and the good grace to forsake, largely, the flamboyant style that marred his bestselling biographical novels about Van Gogh (Lust for Life) and Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy). He lapses occasionally by trying to make the plain but amusing Abigail into a pert glamour girl, but he manages to convey the softening influence she had on her crotchety and unbending husband, from the day he first came calling when she was 17 until the moment...
...keeping a spiral-bound notebook at hand to record everything that Lyndon said and did. And about the only time that Moyers was not with the President was when he was briefing the press on his progress. Though some newsmen blamed him for concealing the existence of one kidney stone until after it was removed by surgery and of another that is still embedded in the kidney, it was the President who decided to keep them, so to speak, to himself...
...Starting Point. The moon business only begins with transportation. Martin Marietta has a $90,000 contract to create a drill to explore 10 ft. below the lunar surface, Westinghouse and Northrop more than $500,000 each for a 100-ft. drill. Ralph Stone & Co. of Los Angeles is spending $100,000 to develop vacuum containers to carry rock samples back to earth. Under an $88,000 contract, Martin is also making lunar tools, including a lightweight geological hammer, a hand lens and a scale to weigh rocks in the light gravity. Westinghouse is spending $4,800,000 to make tiny...