Word: writes
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...election was called to select a congress which would write Venezuela a new constitution and choose a President. To insure victory, the junta months ago planted a government party, lovingly fertilized with treasury money. The only opposition permitted by the junta came from minority parties: the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and the Christian Socialists (nicknamed Copei). But with a fourth of the 2,000,000 votes counted, U.R.D. (which had never polled more than 55,000 votes since its founding in 1946) was leading the government 294,000 to 147,000, with Copei close behind. Censorship cut off further accurate...
...sentiment he baldly states is not mine. When he visited me to discuss the Seminar, I offered to entertain with him an account of my opinions after a summer abroad. Our conversation, I said, was off the record; he asked that it be on so that he might write a fair complete, constructive article, I agreed. In the course of my monologue, I said that thought it seemed inconceivable and illiberal, the Germans whom I had met at the Seminar struck me as unpleasant, stiff, humorless people; and that this, with other things I saw and heard during my trip...
Between interrogation sessions, Stockwell found time to write four books in his cell. Two of them-a volume of religious poetry and one of devotional talks-he memorized, down to an index for each. Two others, a diary and a study of the Gospel of St. John, he wrote in fine handwriting on the margins of a poetry anthology which the Communists allowed him to keep. He also composed and memorized some 70 limericks. Sample...
...corporate life in 25 years with Armstrong Cork Co. Born in South Dakota, he joined Armstrong in 1927 as an adman, worked up through sales and finance to become advertising director. A short-story writer for slick magazines on the side, Hawley quit Armstrong six months ago to write his first book. Some of his reviewers, he says, were baffled by Executive Suite: they were so accustomed to caricatured businessmen that they kept looking for the tongue in Hawley's cheek. Hawley is not discouraged; he is now working on another business novel, thinks that "it will take four...
After a review of the past program and attendance surveys, the Committee decided to write a generally favorable report. This decision was made in spite of the fact that the surveys showed that college football attendance had been hurt by allowing one game to be nationally televised each Saturday...