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’ A local preacher who came to our chapel greatly amused us by describing the encounter of a prophet with a “burr,’ a word that kept recurring in his sermon.
Moreover, the Restoration period when Pepys kept his diary is a good time to compare with ours, because by then the basis of modern English had been laid down by the Elizabethans.
Showcasing the 1945 grenade explosion which kept him in the hospital for three years and left him with a useless right arm signaled a change in the very private man who has been reluctant to discuss the episode.
For those who were wondering, later editions of the Post went with a more tasteful "Mother Died, but Boy, 9, Kept Silent."
The papers explain that recession anxiety may actually have helped ward one off: fiscal turmoil in Asia resulted in low long-term interest rates and commodity prices, which in turn have kept business brisk and spending high.