Word: stub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...severity rather than leniency if there is any doubt. An American couple in Saudi Arabia caught their Pakistani houseboy stealing one day and ordered him to report to the police. They were astonished when he returned home minus one hand. It had been chopped off and the stub of his arm plunged into boiling tallow to disinfect...
...silence. The appearance of these two volumes is added evidence that Beckett is still doing more than breathing. In fact, Beckett himself has set down a fictional prophecy that now seems closer to the mark. In Malone Dies, the narrator tries to arrange things so that his story, the stub of the pencil with which he writes it, and his life will all end at the same moment. It is hard to believe that Beckett will stop writing until he has to. He has made that bur den, after all, his despair and triumph...
...toting up customers' purchases. Around income tax time he was unaccountably stymied by the 1040 form until he discovered the reason for his mental block. Picking up a stack of grocery bags, he completed the necessary calculations easily in his traditional way--on rough brown paper with a pencil stub. The same psychological process may be manifest in author-lawyer Louis Auchincloss, who finds he can only write novels in longhand or familiar yellow legal pads...
...short, charismatic television newsman Gabe Pressman moved in to interview fans. Soon after, the gates opened and the crowd began to seep in. The ticket-takers had agreed to work but clearly had conspired a slowdown--they were reading the small print on each ticket before tearing the stub. Some waiting ticketholders tried to appeal to Pressman but he had gone around to interview the short, charismatic city councilman, Father Louis Gigante. Father Gigante contended that if the city had not wasted so much money rebuilding the stadium, it might have stopped several schools and hospitals from closing down...
...antismoker who doesn't barbecue in his backyard I shall, upon request, stub my cigarette...