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This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries

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sleep rejuvenation

Albom insists on understanding the man better

and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific

The Word Detective the league This is a story ofCan you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions and a great many more can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor of the OED,