Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin with, the Harvard scribe faces the unpleasant task of writing about people whom he must face across the breakfast table the next day. This puts a premium on the ability to sugarcoat the English language to the point where a three-base error becomes merely a tough break. But even kindness of this sort is not enough to placate your athletes-critics, who constantly stantly try to corrupt your attempts to "Write 'em as you see 'em" by burdening you with their side of the story. This has even been carried to the point where a team-mate...
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...accomplish this, Conant said, "first of all the citizen must become a real enthusiast about our great democratic experiment; he must be eager to forward those ideals which are the premises of the experiment itself. Secondly, he must work at the task of making his belief manifest almost daily in the course of his regular life...
Last week, comfortable in blue knee-length socks, red fur-trimmed bedroom slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes...
...been hard for the old girl even to get her name in the cramped newspapers. But in socialist Britain, royalty's duty is the same as it has been: to set an example of good manners to every class. It is Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance, her every girlish gesture. Shopgirls and Mayfair matrons read the story...