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The ship was so clean and so white it looked boiled.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
To the very end, Jim Hill unfailingly applied his lifelong philosophy, by these and many other such applications, of plowing earnings back into improved infrastructure.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
He believed no “real lady” would ever drink beer or use Worcestershire sauce.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Pister collected all the Owens pupfish left at Fish Slough, with the intention of moving them to a nearby spring. They fit into two buckets. “I distinctly remember being scared to death,” he would later write. “I had walked perhaps fifty yards when I realized that I literally held within my hands the existence of an entire vertebrate species.” Pist
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that is not afraid to make a stand for right and justice. Its most noted columnist (and now publisher), Ralph McGill, Pulitzer Prize winner, is significantly referred to as “Rastus” by the White Citizens Councils.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
“Then the Big Man said I had to lick the bottle off. So I sat there in front of everybody and done it. Like I said, after bein’ in jail, like I told you about, it don’t bother me, I guess. Joe was pretty clean, anyway: there wasn’t much shit on it. Most of it was just lard, like I said. I got some applause, too.
Samuel Delany • Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas
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John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
If you want to understand the spirit of our nation, the good and bad, you can enroll in college, sign up for classes, take notes and pay tuition, or you can study the life of Sam the Banana Man.