Word: tempus
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...book's price, $7.95. It bears on a point of some interest to writers now, for the oblivion that swallowed her until now was of her own creation, due to the agreement she made with Alfred Knopf that she was never to be published in cheap editions. Tempus of course fugitted; my The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared in paperback for 250, and the floodgates were opened. But she was left high and dry: unwittingly, by her somewhat smug stipulation, she had committed literary suicide. Very soon, of course, she'll go into the domain, and then...
When the decision was made to go ahead with the project, Writer John T. Elson, for whom this is the tenth Religion cover story, approached his task, quite literally, with prayer. "It would have been easier to do in the Middle Ages in a magazine perhaps called Tempus," he said. "Easier because they had a God then that was consistent...
Please tell me I am wrong; please do not tell me that you attempted to pluralize the Latin tempus and made it into tempi...
...married, middle-aged and suffering from the "tempus fugit blues." He was depressed by all the "fresh, bright faces" around him, especially when one of them got a major promotion in the company. "It's a bitter day when some stripling outstrips you," he groaned. "You earn a place in the sun-no bigger than a dime-and it's contested every minute." Indeed, it seemed high time to trim the "Mason-Dixon line" with some low-calorie food, have his molars fixed and make a mild pass at a pretty young waitress. On such a scarred...
...hour approaches--tempus fugit...