Word: write
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though he can neither read nor write, 25-year-old Lewis West of Miami, a Negro, managed to get himself sentenced to 23 months in prison for forgery. His method: he simply stole Government checks from a mailbox, marked them with an X and got obliging neighborhood merchants to cash them...
Some of you were moved by this incident to write us for Mrs. Ladanca's address, which our bureau in Rome supplied. Others wanted Bruno's measurements so they could send him shoes and clothing. A fortnight ago Correspondent George Jones, of our Rome bureau, visited Lucia Ladanca, and his cabled account, which follows, may serve as one illustration of the effect of American aid to Europeans...
...Lucia does not read or write any language at all, so she went around the corner to a small household supply store owned by brawny Luigi Ottavia, who was born in the States. He read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come...
...find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct. No, I think it is better just to write...
Since boys are often slower than girls in learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...