Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offices of TIME'S Letters department there is a spot known as the "Poet's Corner." Thousands of people every year find occasion and reason to write letters to TIME. A good many of these writers feel the urge to frame their inspired praise or protest in verse form. When such a verse letter comes in, the "Poet's Corner" replies in kind. The reply is usually written by Gwyneth Kahn, one of the eight writers in the Letters department, who quickly shifts from her normal prose technique to verse form on these occasions...
...tramp. I [was kept] under the constant surveillance of a guard who was never more than perhaps ten yards away, and who at night would awaken me at least hourly by shining his flashlight in my eyes until I woke up ... During the exhaustion phase. I was made to write continuously, over a period of about three weeks, from early morning until dark, always against a deadline, under pressure of two interrogators working on me simultaneously, writing largely on matters of military insignificant nature, such as our system of decorations and medals, or on out-of-date material that they...
...been called Mexico's Irving Berlin, though the parallel is more in output and popularity than in mood.* Inimitably latino, Lara is a composer of melancholy love songs who now single-mindedly says: "Woman is the reason for my existence." Since, like Berlin, he can neither read nor write music, he pecks out his tunes on a piano and lets others set them down. In this fashion he has written some 600 songs of love, of whispered reproach and moaning despair...
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below two correct answers are possible. Write...
Pictured at the left are eight men and women who recently took on or parted with newsworthy jobs. From the twelve hints below, identify each of the eight and write the number on the answer sheet...