Word: traders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bolstering her narrative with a rather cumbersome psychohistory, Kearns tries to explain Johnson's massive drive to power. She makes much of the fact that his father, a small farmer and real estate trader, insisted on displays of manliness from him, while his mother emphasized gentility. Lavish with her love at times, his mother withheld it when he displeased her. Out of these inner conflicts, Kearns traces the development of a tormented, driven politician. But Johnson may also have been shaped as much by Texas and national political traditions. His political education began amid rural poverty...
...entire spectrum of criminal specialties, from crude second-story work to deft embezzlement, none requires more patiently marshaled skills than those of consummate check forgery. The practitioner must combine the nerve of a sugar-futures trader, the painstaking craftsmanship of a calligrapher and the face-to-face charm of a successful encyclopedia salesman. He must win people's trust in order to clean them out. Where other criminals can hope to muster enough luck to succeed, the passer of bum checks relies on finesse and self-confidence honed to fine arts...
...Hoosier horse trader" (as Jerry Ford likes to call Earl Butz) was very pleased a few days ago to hear his Communist counterpart in Rumania say "You have something more powerful than atom bombs. You have protein...
Although not vengeful, Rose: My Life in Service has the unmistakable markings of an exercise in British upmanship. A Yorkshire girl is equal-if not superior-to the daughter of a Virginia horse trader...
...conquest and bloodshed by humans who set up an empire based on the enslavement of the conquered. Brutality is commonplace in this society: slavers drown a little girl, for instance, and hack off a boy's hand. The great bear finally kills the chief slave trader, but undergoes great suffering in doing so, and ends the book perceived as a god of sacrifice. The empire disintegrates, and the hero is reduced to ordinary business, "picking up the pieces," what Adams says "we're all here for." He claims his concern in Shardik is to direct attention to the suffering...