Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time I was there, Lucia, who is a very devout woman, did not know what to think about this strange event that was connected with a ' giornalaio' somewhere in America. Her husband, who could not afford medicine or hospital care, had not heard from the pensions investigator who had finally arrived to look into his case. Bruno was as bare as ever, and the baby, Enzo, was getting by with a cotton singlet. All of them shared a diet which Lucia described as 'a little pasta, a little greens...
...resolution marks the high-water mark (to date) of the movement founded 15 years ago by that timeless gadfly of world government, Clarence Streit. He and his associates think that treaties and arms programs and economic-assistance plans are all doomed to fail unless free nations limit their sovereignty and enter a union similar to that created by the U.S. Constitution...
...sound advice dealt out to his fellow craftsmen by hardworking, he-man Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre...
Trastevere is a boisterous, reeking, junglelike quarter that lies across a turbulent stretch of the Tiber river quite apart from most of Rome. The Trasteverini think the separation is fine. They like their dizzy labyrinth of alleyways, the Queen of Heaven jail and the little shop where the baker's daughter and the artist Raphael lived and lusted 400 years ago. They also delight in the dark, heavy-bosomed beauty of their women, the deftly handled stiletto and heroic quantities of dry, amber Frascati...
Retired Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, once something of a menace in Pacific waters himself, showed even less respect for his colleague, the atom bomb. "I don't think the people on the East Coast . . . quite realize what went on in the Pacific," the Bull told a reunion dinner of the Greenwich, Conn. "Old Twelfth" Artillery. "I don't think we had more than 500,000 or 750,000 men [out there, but] with those 750,000 we contained somewhere between two and three million Japanese, and notwithstanding the dropping of the atomic bomb-and that...