Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing down the dreams, says Sartre, Genet became aware of another reality-the reality of words, which he could master. Till that moment lost in a nightmarish effort to justify the world's conception of himself as a thief, he suddenly wakened to his own notion that he could be a writer. He might also be a thief, but he could be his own hero-and fob himself off on the public...
...cuts drew a loud protest at Brown, which had its request reduced to $147,000 from $167,000. Lloyd W. Cornell, director of Financial Aid, said the university was "sorely disappointed" by the reduction and complained that "word of the cut was delayed till early September," throwing the university's whole loan program into disarray...
...only 92 days till Christmas, and if the U.S. Toy Manufacturers' exhibit, which opened in New York this week, is any indication, it's going to be a mechanized holiday this year. Make-believe is out, if not actually forbidden...
...Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...from Darrtown, Ohio, the fellow who struck out the only time he ever got to bat in the big leagues, the homespun country boy who played percentages so devoutly that the Dodgers paid a fulltime statistician to do his arithmetic. Every fall Alston signed a blank contract, then waited till spring to find out how much the Dodgers were going to pay him (currently: $45,000)-if indeed he was still on the payroll. "We all get fired sometime," he shrugged. "The only question is when...