Word: till
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks of happiness-"Up till now I've been the happiest member of our family"-and the hard-won beauty of her face sets the claim. Then she comes on a memory that has her beaming (they are all splendid beamers since they knowingly beam against the grain of what they've endured): "When Jimmy was a boy, we called him 'Hot'-he was always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please...
When they had heard the king, they went their way; and lo, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great...
...resourceful, and the morphine was just what I had been needing all along." In the mid-'40s he suffers fron a mental crackup. His prescription for recovery: "Drink dry sherry in small amounts, spend most of your time with hand tools at a bench, and play old records till there is no wax left in the grooves...
...thought it was tough to get into Harvard, wait till you're 45 and are trying to get a job with the government. The competition for jobs in the Carter administration is intense these days, and it won't let up until the last deputy assistant secretary for subway car development has been named in a high-noon press conference at the Department of Transportation...
...make love till our strength is gone...