Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ecclesiastics Are Politicians. Founder Uchimura, born to a samurai family in 1861, was introduced to Christianity at twelve, when a Tokyo schoolmate invited him "to a certain place in the foreigners' quarter, where we can hear pretty women sing and a tall, big man with a long beard shout and howl upon an elevated place, flinging his arms and twisting his body in all fantastic manners, to all of which admittance is entirely free." Later, at an American-founded agricultural school...
Carolina had grown into a tall, slim, black-eyed girl of 17 when, one day last fall, the Sisters told all 157 girls to line up for inspection. A greying, well-dressed man looked along the line and said: "I'll take that one," and pointed to Carolina. Hastily, the Sisters told him the story of her father. "All the more reason to take her," said he. "She deserves a break...
...fashioned one of the world's most influential journalists: Philip L. (for Leslie) Graham, publisher, who started at the top ten years ago without ever having covered a news story, written an editorial or sold an ad. Phil Graham, 40, is an energetic charmer whose facial furrows and tall, angular frame (6 ft. 1 in., 160 Ibs.) give him a Lincolnesque look. Lawyer by profession, politician by instinct, latter-day New Dealer by choice, he became a newspaper publisher by marrying the boss's daughter. He quickly showed that the boss, Multimillionaire Eugene Meyer, now 80, could...
...tall, austere Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was long since Mr. General Motors. President from 1923 to 1937, chief executive officer from 1923 to 1946, board chairman since 1937, he was the major factor in making G.M. the world's greatest industrial corporation, increased its share of U.S. automotive output from 12% when he took over to 50% today. Last week Alfred Sloan, management genius, stepped out as chairman of the board of General Motors...
Like just about everything Bates has written, The Sleepless Moon is well carpentered, easily written, and well calculated to shorten a train ride or add pleasure to a tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...