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Word: webb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrated by Jack Webb...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...have losses we wouldn't be in business." The group draws some satisfaction from the recent strengthening of sterling, now at $2.22, which means that members will have to lay out fewer pounds to pay off claims in dollars. But that is sore solace. As Underwriter Peter Cameron-Webb noted, "I doubt if a broker will ever try to place this policy again at Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fabled Lloyd's Takes a Bath | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...narrated by Jack Webb...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Against these detailed backgrounds, the characters are mere outlines. Walter Blackett, head of Blackett and Webb, the firm whose farflung enterprises frame most of the novel's action, is a buccaneer abroad and a fond family man at home. Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits. His opposite is young Matthew Webb, a bumbling idealist who despises colonialism but offers no better alternative than a vague new brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deluded Idyll | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...year in Viet Nam covering the war for Esquire, writes prose that resembles some weapon the Pentagon developed especially for Viet Nam-hallucinatory, menacing, full of anxiety, death and a stunning, offhanded sort of accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside the soldiers, and himself, that enjoys the appalling charm of war. Writes Herr: "But somewhere all the mythic tricks intersected, from the lowest John Wayne wet dream to the most aggravated soldier-poet fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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