Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Till you finally come to rest...
...didn't hear she was dead till we were in the middle of supper. I got up and fried a chicken for her boys and rushed over to the funeral home...
...effect. Lincoln's best generals failed: refulgent characters like George McClellan and "Fighting Joe" Hooker, who would not fight. Grant, the failure, succeeded. Down the years, if anyone has bothered to think about Grant, he has had to wonder whether the man was a genius (his native genius hidden till the crucial moment) or a nonentity who blundered into momentary success, who arrived at immortality by accident. Ronald Reagan is a leader of totally different temperament and tailoring, but one sometimes hears the same puzzlement over his luck and political successes. In this comparison of qualifications, acting in Hollywood...
...Square's 27 new, used, and specialty book stores dot most corners and fill at least three basements. For textbooks and general reading, your best bet is to start with The Harvard Coop. The Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave) stays open till 10 p.m. every night except Sunday. It carries new titles and used books at half-price downstairs. For more mainstream new books, there's the Paperback Booksmith (25 Brattle St.). Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is also good for late-night shoppers and offers a huge selection of magazines and a mixture of popular and scholarly titles...
Martha Grimes is an American mystery writer who up till now has forsworn the traditional metier of her countrymen, the novel of action, in favor of dead-on English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch...