Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania, Adlai Stevenson, supported by all top Democratic leaders, and unopposed on the Democratic ballot, got 627,000 votes to 37,000 write-ins for Kefauver. On the Republican ballot, Ike got 925,000 votes to 43,000 for California's Senator William Knowland. Ike outran Stevenson even in Philadelphia (which went heavily Democratic in 1952). The straw: Eisenhower over Stevenson, in Pennsylvania...
...other entertainments . . . Newspapers, many of them built to greatness on the tradition of fearless reporting, are only going through the motions of covering beats or waiting for the news releases to be thrown through the transom . . . It's much easier to hire wire services than to gather, write and print local news . . . You don't get into arguments with your readers over...
...else again. Of 26 pupils in a tenth-grade English class, for instance, three might be outstanding students, 13 might range from "medium to poor." five may be "very poor," and five may be "incapable of doing anything that could properly be labeled tenth-grade English. They do not write a sentence; they do not know or care about capitals at the beginning or periods at the end . . . Their attitude towards school will vary from total passivity to active protest...
...heavily stricken and in darkness," wrote Henry James to a friend in the summer of 1910. His "ideal elder brother," Philosopher William James, had just died, and at 67, Henry was the sole survivor of four James brothers and one sister. As he sat down to write his autobiography, James must have felt that the face of life had not really smiled on him for two decades. His plays had pitiably flopped. At the opening-night curtain of one of them he was hooted off the London stage. His late novels, with their labyrinthine sentences and ideas, scarcely sold...
...looked her over. "Hair skinned back, big nose. Skin color like a mushroom . . . nothing clothes." He thought: "What have I got to lose? I'm an accessory to innocence . . . This is my chance. I'm taking it." He turned to the girl. "I'm going to write out a death certificate," he told her gently. "Death by natural causes . . . Don't you get it? I'm going...