Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make answering President Eisenhower, who had congratulated Utah's Senator Watkins on a "splendid job" of preparing censure recommendations against McCarthy. Joe had first planned, he later confided to a few friends, to shoot his statement from the hip, but since he felt bad, had decided to write it out. In his office he dictated the statement to Jean. Then Mary Driscoll, McCarthy's secretary, delivered it to Mundt, whispering in his ear that her boss would like him to read it into the record and the TV cameras. After glancing over the two sheets of yellow paper...
...WAFs and airmen stand behind the map and write on it backwards to plot positions, seen through the Plexiglas by observers in front. Women are better than men for the tricky task of writing in reverse...
...finance committee, which did not even discuss it for three months. Then Liberals and conservative Christian Democrats proposed one amendment after another to the bill. Said one government member ruefully: "In America you have penalties up to ten years for tax evaders. Here in Italy, when we try to write a jail provision for six months, we are called radicals...
Hemingway expressed his gratitude with an eloquent sample of his prose: "Writing, at-its best, is a lonely life . . . [A writer] does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day . . . How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help...
...been busy, Virginia, helping along the poor little people, and gleaning a little floss from the dross. How do you think Dorothy Kilgallen would have had a chance to write again without the murder trial? Why do you think Hemingway got a Nobel Prize right after hurting his head, And who do you think has been busy in his North Pole workshop whipping up a new wing for Winthrop House...