Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because G.I.s so cordially hated Spam, few people figured that it would have much of a postwar market. But G.I. memories were short, and postwar teen-agers never knew that they were not supposed to savor Spam. Since 1945, Spam sales have climbed from 30 million cans a year to...
The year is 1944. He is a paratrooper without fear, brains or money. She is the mistress of an industrial titan (George Sanders), who keeps her in his elegant Manhattan mansion, where they "get along rather well in those rather delicate areas where it seems important for a man and...
0 to Be a Dragon only suggests the measure of Poet Moore's true worth. She is mostly having fun, and so will most readers who admire a deft use of language, a faultless grip on verse technique, an underlying love for living things, in such playful lines as...
Humanity & Virtue. Six of the stories that Feng collected-and presumably edited-have been translated by English Scholar Cyril Birch. Today's readers will have to suspend all their literary leanings to appreciate the tales. They move with remarkable smoothness, but their authors cared not a kumquat about probability...
Wine Is the Cup. If virtue was always rewarded, the conventional virtues are not always practiced. Strong wine rather than tea is the cup that cheers, and one hero downs 30 pints in one night. In The Pearl-Sewn Shirt, a lovely young wife turns to a wine-guzzling old...