Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words of debate, the tidelands bill to grant seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries, sent it back to the House. ¶ Passed, over strong objections by Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, a bill authorizing the Export-Import Bank to write insurance against war damage and seizure on cotton and other American products shipped to friendly countries, sent it to the House. Taft called it "a very unfortunate extension of government in business . . . out of line with everything which the Republican Party has said it was going...
South Africa's 2,500,000 whites, divided between Boer and Briton, have rarely disagreed about keeping their preferred position over the 10 million nonwhites. Last week, for the first time since the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the write front was cracked. A band of South African Liberals, among them Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton, formed an unashamedly Liberal Party open to all South Africans, regardless of race. The Liberal Party platform: equal rights, made safe by equal votes, for blacks, whites and browns...
...Manhattan, Hermitage House publishers sued Actress Ethel Barrymore and Harper & Bros, publishers for $125,000 each. The charge: Miss Barrymore had signed a contract in 1947 to write her memoirs for Hermitage House, but last January agreed to let Harper have her story. The defense: Miss Barrymore had been badgered with "unconscionable . . . demands" to deliver her work in a hurry, and that voided the contract...
What can go wrong with a change of address? Most commonly, the old address as given differs in some respect from the way it is listed in our records. If the subscription is in the husband's name, Mr. Thomas Jones, his wife may write, signing her name Agnes Jones. Or a post office box number may have been changed, or the postal zone number may be left off. Other essential information may be missing from the new address. And sometimes subscribers are over-optimistic about the completion of their new homes...
...difficulty-and it kept him from ever fully scaling the literary heights-was his inability to feel deeply. He once said if he had to choose between the collected works of Shakespeare and Roget's Thesaurus, "I would let Billy go, upon my word." He could write perceptively, but he had to lament, while trying to write about love: "I have never been in love. Sometimes the tears start to my eyes, but they never fall...