Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over what should be done with their letters and over how much of them ought to be published. The act moves on to a most affecting conclusion, as we see the pathetic decline and hard days of Mrs. Campbell, who finally has to overcome her pride and write to Shaw for assistance...
...buffoon-one whose profession is to bribe people to listen to me by literary antics such as silly tales of lovemaking and so forth. But has anyone been more serious with you than I? If you have made me feel, have I not made you think?" "Write to me, and I will make love to you-to relieve the enormous solitude which I carry about with me. I do not like myself, and sometimes I do not like you; but there are moments when our two unfortunate souls seem to cling to the same spar in a gleam of sunshine...
...Novak, a claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad, is a melancholy, tight-lipped man whom little Marilyn tried hard to please; she seldom succeeded. Marilyn proved to be lefthanded; her father badgered her without success to use her right hand. "It just makes me sick to see anybody write lefthanded, just makes me sick," he explains. Even today Father Novak is not altogether pleased with his daughter's success. Says he, "It's all well and good that she's at her best right now, but imagine, say five or ten years from now. What...
TREASURY TAX LOSS on fast write-offs for new defense industry will total between $4.3 billion and $4.9 billion by year's end. Though taxes on write-offs for $37.8 billion worth of defense expansion since 1950 will be paid in later years, Treasury will wind up with net loss of $530 million to $601 million if maximum corporate tax rate drops from 52% to 47% next June...
...finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead ing me back to primitive ideas and in stincts." Fascinated but also scared, the Frenchman writes : "No European woman had ever played the same part in my life." Another Age. The distinguishing qual ity of French colonialism was its lack of racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already belongs to another age, and in the once-prized colony, only a few French linger today...