Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching herself "to push the little balls around"-her phrase for the King's favorite game of billiards. In January 1936, the Queen wrote in the diary that her husband had kept each day for almost 56 years: "King George V was much distressed at the bad writing above, and begged me to write his diary for him next day. He passed away ... at five minutes before midnight...
...fashioned pocket watch, arise and politely excuse himself. He opens the watch each morning at 7 to start his day (with a hymn and prayers with his small staff), and it ticks tirelessly through his appointments until 10 at night, when he goes to his study to write. His books, both on devotional and historical subjects, are written in a conversational style which has made some of them close to bestsellers...
Contests need not involve physical violence to evoke the guilt reaction, says Dr. Levin. There was a bridge player who, when he began to win, would "go all to pieces," feel weak, and be unable to shuffle the cards or write the score. Even chess has its victims; one man had an attack when he thought he was going to checkmate his opponent. Cataplexy afflicts winners, not losers. Some people, says Levin, "feel guilty when they beat a competitor, even in sport, for victory gratifies their unconscious hostile wishes. When they lose a game, they may not like...
...days as a professional writer are over," said Somerset Maugham in 1948. "I'm putting up the shutters, shutting up the shop. After all, I'm 75 next birthday . . . But if I think of an occasional little piece, I will write it." Since then, Somerset Maugham (now 79) has published his notebooks and thought of a few little pieces...
...Senator Jenner and Robert Morris, counsel for the investigating committee, had emphasized an editorial in the Record, which the Lubells had helped to write, attacking Congressional investigations into universities...