Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account was an article in The Nation of January 30, 1954, entitled "G-Men on the Berkeley Campus." This article reviewed the situation, discounted the protestations from University officials, and concluded that both the legislature and the colleges were trying to appease the McCarthyites...
...most unequivocal language, the six senators of both parties, who made up the select committee, called McCarthy to account for his conduct in two of the five main groups of charges. He was, they declared, both contemptuous in his refusal to appear before the Hendrickson Committee (which investigated his finances in 1952) and reprehensible in his treatment of General Zwicker. In a manner entirely free from timidity or politicking, they unanimously asked for his censure on both these counts...
...Morris was in his 20s when he gave this account. The world was a rather large oyster for a lad without money to swallow, but Jed was the kind who would swallow it whole even if he choked. He splashed on the Marxist ketchup, and washed it all down with huge gulps of sex. Every night, after a furious day on the intellectual make, "he was in a hurry to go to sleep so that he would wake up and it would be tomorrow...
...lightly laced with sex, of one of history's most famous trials. Unjustly condemned to drink the hemlock on the charge that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...
...reader can say "Grüss Gott!" the three of them are belaying their way toward the summit, along with a tepid villain whom Rudi also rescues, for good measure. By the author of The White Tower and aimed at the schoolboy trade, this is a slick, readable fictionalized account of the 1865 conquest of the Matterhorn: half as high as Mt. Everest, and nearly half as interesting...