Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista: "I don't think Haya killed Graña-but I believe Graña killed Haya...
...with the rival All-America Football Conference (which has boosted halfbacks' salaries to as high as $20,000 a season), he finished $29,000 in the red with his championship team. Says Thompson, who in 1930 inherited $5,000,000 from his steel-baron father: "I no longer think football is a good investment...
...have won public acclaim in a particular part . . . The roles are so exacting that one artist cannot sing two nights in succession . . ." Anyway, "how about the many [out-of-town] music lovers who . . . want variety in opera just as they want variety in Broadway plays? What would they think, when here for a week of opera, if we produced the same work several nights in succession...
...deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures and the smoke all spiral toward the building being done...
...towards a law degree at night school ("a businessman can't safely make a move today without consulting a lawyer"), as part of the job of keeping Bell & Howell growing. Says Percy: "No company can stand still. We set our sights always a little ahead of what we think we can reach...