Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before I could talk," she says, "I had a private name for myself. And that was part of my magic kingdom." The name was Mildred, a stand-in Doppelganger who took the blame when things went sour. "Sometimes, the kingdom would become very, very strong and I had to go away?it was a lot like I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...
...mostly in theology, ex-priests hardly have the ideal background for civilian careers. Even so, a survey conducted by The Gallagher Presidents' Report shows that most of the 231 former priests interviewed had found work within two months. Half of the priests, reported the weekly newsletter for executives, went to work in the business world. They became salesmen, management trainees, office managers, systems engineers, journalists, admen, economists and personnel directors. Most of the others moved into education or social service. Their salaries average $9,200 a year...
...given a violin. He smashed it. At 41, he was started on piano lessons. A few years later, when his daily practice routine had risen from two hours to seven, he sometimes wished that he had smashed the piano too. "Other kids got up in the morning, ate, went off to play," he recalls. "For me, it was slavery. I never had a holiday until I was 22 years...
...generations the Thugs went almost completely unchecked. The British government, calmly tallying "misadventures," remained totally unconcerned because Thugs killed almost no Europeans. As for the natives themselves, Thugs terrorized the peasants and bribed the rajahs and landowners to ignore them or protect them. Thugs were often of the Brahman caste. When they were arrested, they were almost invariably released for "lack of evidence." It was as if the Thugs (corrupted from thags, Hindustani for "deceivers") had managed to keep a whole country hypnotized...
...Thugs kill without remorse but "with pleasure," as they confessed, sanctified by omens before and prayers afterward. Thug son succeeded Thug father in the family business as a matter of course. But even after as many as eleven generations had accumulated fortunes, Thugs and scions of Thugs went on doing their thing. Shrewd appraisers of rich victims, they carefully scouted out their targets. But they had no objection to the impromptu murder of a party of four-for as little as 20 gold pieces and a handful of rupees. Whatever drove the Thugs-probably a mixture of greed, blood lust...