Word: collier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RICHARD COLLIER 376 pages. Atheneum...
...highly democratic epidemic, striking across class, racial and economic lines. Yet no nation wanted to take credit for originating this leveler, which was known as the Spanish Lady because of an early publicized outbreak in May 1918 at San Sebastian. Author Collier notes, however, that two months before, 1,100 cases of flu had already been reported at Fort Riley, Kans. "Spanish Lady" stuck, however, probably because it was more romantic than a competing U.S. term...
...immense story that Richard Collier (The City That Wouldn 't Die, The Sands of Dunkirk) attempts to tell. He has selected perhaps the only popular method possible: a compact narrative out of which the reader may pull facts and anecdotes as if from an endless Pandora's box Of Kleenex...
Both Champion and Collier said that the burden of this loan will "quite possibly" rest on the housing account. In that case, revenues from the dormitory would also have to pay for the interest on this loan...
However, a decision on the responsibility for the loan has not been made yet, Collier said...