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He read news articles about the “Dear Leader” drinking expensive whisky during North Korea’s massive famine in the late 1990s.
Born in 1952, the Brooklyn native learned to love reading as a child when he was introduced to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
From Los Angeles Times
One defence source said the prime minister's speech read like an argument for increased defence spending with the announcement left out.
From BBC
“Touching the granite at any time during the forward motion is not allowed,” the statement read.
They also read serialized fiction in newspapers or magazines, as well as “story papers”—weekly magazines containing serial adventure stories and other fiction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.