Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American periodicals, an average of 237 articles for each of the two years. In the last twelve months, he managed to break into magazine print only 33 times, with most of the articles appearing early in 1955 just after the Senate censure. Only one major publication saw fit to write on him at all in the last three months of the year--and that was the evervindictive Nation, whose correspondent pursued the Senator on a speaking tour to Boston to write a piece entitled "Comeback Flop." The news index of the New York Times tells the same story of lack...
...Soviet concepts of strategy. I'd like to use it over the weekend." "I desire to land in Washington at 0830 on Wednesday." "What do you think of Mr. Attlee's book?" "I hear your sergeant-major had a baby yesterday. Boy or girl?" (The general will write a letter of congratulation.) "Please get me by noon some anti-religious quotations from Marx, Lenin and Stalin." "What was I thinking about yesterday when I talked to so-and-so?'' Gruenther's insatiable demands for information keep his staff in a state of palm-sweating nerves...
...Baltimore, soon after the general elections of 1948, Henry Louis Mencken suffered a severe stroke that damaged his power of speech and his ability to read and write. But it left his remarkable mind unimpaired and isolated. Two years later a massive coronary occlusion brought him once more to the verge of death. In the brick row house on Rollins Street where he had spent nearly all his life, Mencken sank, fighting, into the twilight of aphasia. It was a cruel fate for a man of Mencken's measure, and in his anguish he rebelled against it. This week...
...FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS on 21 types of defense projects will be reinstated by the Office of Defense Mobilization. Among the expansion goals reinstated: airport facilities, iron ore, diesel locomotives, truck terminals, railroad passenger cars, petroleum pipelines...
...usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman in a bookshop-which doesn't leave much for even cheap cigarettes. Gordon's big question is not: How can I write better poetry, or how can I make a better world? It is simply: How can I make four cigarettes last two days...