Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help prepare the King's dinner were going in the back door. She followed the ladies inside. Before she could find an apron, however, a policeman spotted the undisguised reporter and hustled her outside. Later, after talking with farmers' wives and children, she was able to write a lively story of the day's visit...
...play Marco, a viewer picks up a special card (limit: three) at his grocer's, fills it out by writing his own combination of numbers in the blank spaces (e.g., in the five blanks in the "M" column he may write any numbers from 1 to 25; under the "A" column, any from 26 to 50). He sends the completed card to KTLA, keeping a duplicate for himself...
Sportswriter Rice really started to make a national name himself when he went to work for the old New York Mail. He moved on to the Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
When the Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He'll write not "won" or "lost" But how you played the game...
...Reassurance. "This book is published," write the authors, ". . . to reassure the lay public that the original Gospel stood foursquare . . ." But the layman who reads on soon finds that the "original Gospel" according to Graves and Podro is a far cry from the canonical books of the New Testament. The canonical books, "judged by Greek literary standards" say Graves & Podro ". . . are poor; by historical standards, unreliable; and their doctrine is confused and contradictory. The late-Victorian atheist (was it Bradlaugh?) may be excused for remarking that they read as though 'concocted by illiterate, half-starved visionaries in some dark corner...