Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Said the hospital chaplain: "This is a devil of a thing. When you do everything -everything-and you lose...
...left and right in Laos. Ever since his coup in August, the city has been controlled by pro-Communist Captain Kong Le with a battalion of paratroops. Much of the rest of the country has remained in the hands of pro-U.S. General Phoumi Nosavan, the closest thing Laos has to a strongman. When neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma gave up his assiduous attempts at compromise between the two factions and flew off to safety in Cambodia (TIME, Dec. 19), the stage was set for trouble...
...will search for substitutes immediately. There are North Americans who specialize in evading the blockade and selling. The law of profit is more important to them than any other thing...
...What makes an anti-American?" inquired Chambers. "Envy, for one thing: a kind of meanness which resents the fact that any country should be bigger and richer than...
...small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing to do: translate it for them. So he did. Unfortunately, publication in ancient Rome turned out to be impractical, so Dr. Lenard paid for his book's first edition himself. Surprisingly, there was a lot of interest in the modern world, and finally, the translator turned...