Word: datedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testing anew the strength of his convictions. John David Provoo was cell-bound last week. His old trouble-treason -dated from the World War II surrender of Corregidor, when California-born U.S. Sergeant Provoo bowed deeply to his arriving captors, spoke to them in fluent Japanese, offered his humble services...
Even so, the settlement came unstuck -and another letter, dated Dec. 4, 1953, came from the FTC to Northfield, charging mislabeling. This letter so bewildered Bernard Goldfine, said he in sworn testimony, that he took it to his friend Sherman Adams to find out what it was all about. Adams...
¶ Spoke proudly of his long friendship with Sherman Adams, who shared his faith in the industrial future of New England. On cue, during the reading he removed a gold wristwatch. passed it to the committee-"providing I get it back.'' Said he: "The watch I am wearing...
Novelist Alberto Moravia (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love ) has often written about sex as man's hex. In Two Women he all but abandons sensuality for sorrow, all but ignores the battle of the sexes for the real war that raged across his native Italy in the '...
Perhaps the weirdest thing about the book is the reconstructed conversations with Accomplice Dickie Loeb, who, in Leopold's recollections, speaks a weirdly dated slang. It is with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom. Writes Leopold...