Word: te
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salmon & Secrets. In 1946 a Communist friend turned him over to a Tass correspondent named Anisimov, who plied him with champagne at his home, treated him to cozy téte-à-téte dinners of jellied Volga fish, Siberian smoked salmon, choice vodka, potent Swedish export beer and voluble persuasion. After three years of this, Ernest was considered ready for espionage...
...daytime hours-and then spin a pleasant story about how his dog had jumped into the river to bring him a water lily. The same night, he might be visited by one of his apocalyptic visions-mind-freezing apparitions that shrieked in his ears: "Actum est de te; perusti! [It is all over with thee; thou hast perished...
...Please. Many of the passenger complaints, says Franklin, are just a matter of opinion. "Every railroad," he says, "gets them." Even the ones that are valid, says he, are hard to correct. The road last year tried out the European system of taking table-d'hÔte orders ahead of time and staggering meals, soon gave it up when passengers said that "they weren't going to be told when and what...
...attended free sculpture classes in public night school. Before World War I, he took a studio in Montmartre, began hobnobbing with Paris' artist-revolutionaries, translating their cubist experiments into blocky, three-dimensional breakdowns of guitars, women and bottles. But as Laurens' friend, Cubist André Lhôte, puts it, "The painters had the luck-the bourgeoisie liked the colors. But the poor sculptors! The women were afraid the corners would catch the plumes in their hats." Few prospective buyers took notice of Laurens' experiments in wood and stone. In the '20s, Laurens began smoothing...
Civilized Customs. In the Transkei area, South Africa, school officials received examination applications from students named Dinah Beauty, Te Deum, Sweetness, Alectricia, Hygenia, Governor General...