Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overnight, Durocher the tartar became Durocher the martyr. Leo permitted himself a wan smile for photographers, spoke a sentiment for the press that he had seldom been able to utter before: "It's swell to know that some people are behind...
When neighbors visited Mrs. Sullivan (she was popular in the neighborhood, and generous with what little she had), Gerald was locked in his room, empty but for a dirty Army cot; he had been taught not to utter a sound. Last week Anna Sullivan forgot to lock the door; he escaped while she was telephoning...
...style, but belabored his single-tax theories. What he had to say was said merely with increasing stridency as he grew older. Albert Jay Nock was persuaded that his civilization was creaking badly and in sore need of repair, but all he chose to do about it was to utter the graceful melancholies of an innate Tory who does not care to bring his own talents to the aid of a program...
...shows a dishevelled, drunken, and discouraged Negro MP sprawled on a pile of rubble wistfully playing his harmonica for an Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...
...College, Cambridge, author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, one of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century. The year was 1915-16; D. H. Lawrence was 30 and beginning to be well known, but in the middle of a "spiritual crisis" that was plunging him into "utter darkness of chaos." All that Russell and Lawrence had in common was a passionate objection to the continuance of World War I, and Lawrence hoped that they might not only get together in preaching pacifism but also in concocting a new philosophy of life. The 23 Lawrence letters in this...