Word: sorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...command: the Military Air Transport Service, whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and supplies to distant battlefields and trouble spots. Because MATS does not fire missiles or drop bombs, and because its main chore is to move and service ground forces, it has become a sort of stepchild, limps along on a small fraction of the Air Force's $18 billion budget...
...overshadow the relatively provincial pantheon at Poblet. The venerable monastery fell from being a seat of kings to the function of being a place of refuge. In 1835 an anti-monastic revolution swept all Spain. Poblet's monks fled, leaving the monastery to live on in a sort of half existence as the hiding place of looters and thieves...
...cites the case of a science-fiction writer who wandered into a New Orleans bordello and found his work so highly favored by the staff that he was asked to be the guest of the establishment. Better writers may have won the Pulitzer Prize, but few have won this sort of recognition...
Brilliant Bully. By this editorial principle, Harris raised News circulation from 7,000 to 70,000. He gained social standing of a sort by marrying a wealthy widow, whom he made poorer but no happier. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative but ruined his chances by making a speech on the merits of mistresses for M.P.s. By borrowing right and left, Harris managed to buy a literary weekly, the Saturday Review, tossed out its old staff, and before long had a roster of contributors including Shaw, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling...
...Deadly Game. Three retired European men-of-law nightly meet for dinner and a sort of moot-court parlor game. An American salesman happens in, is tried for his morally slipshod life. Adapted by James Yaffe from a Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel...