Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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It seems an injustice that the members of the military are deprived of the right of a home and family; the only reason we have a military is to ensure that right for the rest of the country.
Pearl of the Orient
When I was a cub reporter, 65 years ago, I was taught that there never had been but two outstanding jobs of reporting: 1) Lew Wallace's account of the Ben-Hur chariot race (fictional); 2) Lafcadio Hearn's account of the Gas House [Tannery] Murder in the...
Now there is a third: TIME'S Hong Kong story in the Nov. 21 issue. That is the best piece of newspaper English I have read in a generation.
Not to mention Deep Water Bay or Pokfuluam or Mount Kellett or Happy Valley, where the graves of honorable friends watch over race track, not to write of Tai Po or Sha Tin or Fan Ling, the golfers' paradise, is a crying shame.