Word: unwashedness
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In all fairness, Drury must have spent at least half an hour revising the plot of his past novels to fit this new setting. Gone is the Russian threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to...
Although Surette's job entailed mostly sweeping and cleaning wastebaskets and ashtrays, Wooten complained to her about dirty windows and unwashed floors, which she had never been instructed to clean, Surette added.
The film, if not the war, ends at the outset of this decade. Finney has begun to chafe and drink under the pressures of holding on to his mistress and landing a higher-level job, and now looks forward to a day when "people will stay together because they really...
Unfortunately, the author's deep involvement with his novel transforms his work from a historical chronicle of a distinguished New England family to a pointed deposition--sketched on yellow legal paper--on the Puritan ethic. Through all his talk of covenants, missions and Puritan ideals runs an annoying smugness. Novelists...
In that war, the F.N.L.A. and UNITA forces have made spectacular gains in recent weeks. Two months ago, the M.P.L.A. controlled twelve of Angola's 16 districts; it now appears to have only six. At week's end columns of troops were moving toward Luanda from two sides...