Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...latest Waltari should make the cash registers clang just as loudly as The Egyptian did. His publisher confidently predicts for The Adventurer a sale of "six figures in six weeks...
...sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...
Eichelberger was seldom still. During the Philippines campaign, he flew on 70 out of 90 days, once ordered his personal B-17 Miss Em (named for his wife) down to 200 ft. to make strafing runs in support of his troops. If the Sixth Army's General Krueger was MacArthur's power-play fullback, Eichelberger was the team's imaginative, elusive halfback who took daring chances and made touchdowns. From Christmas Day 1944 to the Japanese surrender, his Eighth Army had 52 D-days, used tactics that constantly kept the Japs off balance...
...because it is mine. You would like to see it all go to ruin." Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed." But The Weeds, first of the four short stories that make up the bulk of Cast a Cold Eye (the remainder consists of New Yorkerized skeins of personal history), is a large bedful of just such dim petunias, wherein every muted "Ah!" suggests hoarse response to a throat specialist rather than the valid sound made by a Pascal truth-seeker...
This morning, or some Monday morning seen the Corporation will have to make its final decision whether or not to authorize the construction of a new Varsity Club on Mr. Auburn Street with $250,000 of the bequest left to the University by the late Allston Burr...