Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from his grandmother losing her rest, the now retired counsel, who termned himself an "overindulgent citizen," lost some sleep of his own. In underworldly dealings in behalf of the paper, he had solicited funds avidly. He quoted some of these dealings; in particular, the approach used toward one well-endowed Republican: "Lippy, I need some money." This technique had kept the publication from insolvency, but only through the efforts of counsel...
Almost next door to the new Gold Coast state of Ghana lies a far bigger British colony working toward independence. Last week in Eastern Nigeria, one of the three great regions of Britain's West African colonial protectorate, Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe (known as "Zik") won a decisive election on the wrong side of a scandal...
Armored cars rolled up outside, and their machine gunners opened fire at student snipers on nearby rooftops. One gunner, spotting a suspicious figure in the Regis Hotel, poured 200 rounds toward the room, and thereby killed Tourist Pete Korenda, of Clifton, N.J. Three hours later the firing stopped. At Radio Reloj, cops cut off and killed the fleeing students who had attacked the station. One of them was Student Leader José Antonio Echevarria, 25, who last month told a visiting U.S. newsman that "Cuban students are not afraid...
Advice. The book does not depend on its gamey moments and archaic oddballs for its best effects. Essentially it is a victory of writing, each sentence surely pointed toward its purpose. Author Cheevers rueful love of his characters touches every page of the book. But perhaps he liked Leander best, Leander who left this "Advice to my sons'" in a copy of Shakespeare...
...from the boys; the reader may find difficulty in separating the men from the animals. Tony stakes out free land (having deceived a government surveyors' party as to just where water was available), steals cleanskins (i.e., unbranded cattle), lives like a patriarch among a mob of women, and toward the end of a misspent life is so rich that he threatens to entertain a visiting royal duke, presumably the Duke of York, later King George VI of Britain. For years Tony had lived in a shack and never learned to read, but he employed a man to read good...