Word: writes
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...George Parke, a retired printer in Farmhaven, Miss., sat down to write a piece of all-but-forgotten history. In 1,628 words, he told a closely detailed story of the New Orleans Mafia lynching of 1891. A mob, led by a band of riflemen, broke into jail and murdered eleven Italians, some of whom had been tried and acquitted in the death of New Orleans' police chief. The lynching had become an international incident: U.S. and Italian relations were broken off. When Parke finished his story, he sent it off to TIME's supplement, LETTERS, where...
ANYONE who now takes stock of the national situation must first of all write down 1955 as the year when the Eisenhower administration found itself, and the American political process got back on the rails. It was like discovering a new country, to return to America after an absence of six months. The venom, the suspicion, the hatred that had so long been poisoning American political life, were purged and gone. The sewers of our politics were no longer running in the streets...
...FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS for new defense building will be sharply cut back if Treasury Secretary George Humphrey has his way. Humphrey says that the U.S. has handed out five-year write-offs for projects worth $30.4 billion since 1950, costing the Government $1 billion in taxes annually. At Humphrey's request, the Office of Defense Mobilization is reviewing its tax program to see how it can cut down on write-offs...
Down the Line. Graves got around the problem by becoming a prose writer. His friend Lawrence of Arabia gave him permission to write the first "official" Lawrence biography; on the proceeds of this and of his own Goodbye, Graves was able to settle down on five stony acres in the Spanish island of Majorca. Except when driven home by war, Graves has lived there ever since, enjoying the "best &weather in Europe " and "the only sea, the Mediterranean," without abandoning the Greenwich meridian (which passes through London but misses Majorca by about 130 miles). "Those who stay out of England...
...soon realizes that he is no softie. Behind the manners of a Southern gentleman lurks a mind like a shark's mouth. Hopkins is not only a genius for work but for good works. It is Tom's big chore throughout much of the novel to write a first draft of a Hopkins speech kicking off a national campaign on mental health. Before the speech is finally given, Tom has to take a bumpy ride over his own well-scarred mental highway. It is stalked by the ghosts of 1) the men he killed as a wartime paratrooper...