Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where solicitation is prohibited, some evangelists get around the ban by making a pitch for money indirectly ("We invite your prayerful support. Won't you write us and tell us you are listening?") Where it is not, solicitation may be direct ("You are invited to send your free-will gifts and offerings for the support of this worldwide faith ministry to . . ."). Others use the hard-sell technique ("Mail those contributions now, because we have to pay up our back bill to wonderful KGER. I wish more of you would pledge a dime...
...months that followed, the bedroom became her favorite room. There she could dictate and write after a day of meetings, interruptions, official calls and callers. There before another busy day she could read over her breakfast tray and a second cup of coffee...
...enterprising New York Journal-American tapped Italy's billowing Cinemactress Sophia (Too Bad She's Bad) Loren to guest-write a column for its vacationing Gossipist Dorothy Kilgallen. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce...
...according to the Justice Department, exercised illegal control by 1) putting a G.M. officer in as board chairman of a principal competitor; 2) extending preferential prices to favored customers; 3) refusing to sell buses to competitors of favored customers; and 4) inducing officials of municipal bus lines to write restrictive specifications to exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices...
...have never been able to understand the contention that a poet's life is irrelevant to his work ... If it means that a poet may be heartless or insincere or grasping in his personal relations and yet write true poems, I disagree wholeheartedly . . . Though it may be argued that no acceptable code of sexual morals can be laid down for the poet, I am convinced that deception, cruelty, meanness, or any violation of a woman's dignity are abhorrent to the Goddess...