Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration. It is up to Sherman Adams to bring together for negotiation the department and agency heads who may have an interest in a specific problem. He can and does hold over their heads the fact that if they do not arrive at a reasonable solution he will write the recommendation himself-and his is the one that goes to President Eisenhower marked with the all-important scrawl...
...When any schollar is able to read and understand Tully, Virgil or any such ordinary Classicall Authors, and can readily make and speake or write true Latin in prose and hath skill in making verse, and is Competently grounded in the Greeke language: so as to be able to Construe and Grammatically to resolve ordinary Greeke, as in the Greeke Testament, Isocrates, and the minor poets, or such like, having withall meet Testimony of his towardlinesse, hee shall be capable of his admission into the Colledge...
Their task then is to make a quick diagnosis - take a case history, make a physical examination, write a prescription or a referral for surgery. Meanwhile, the waiting room is still full...
...Write a thousand words a day for the next five years ... A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself...
...socially conscious '30s, when rage was all the rage, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan seemed the sort of protest against a poor slum kid's lot that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...