Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice-Marshal D'Aeth an nounced his intention to enter the ministry at the farewell dinner given him on his retirement from the R.A.F., "it spoiled a jolly good evening. No one knew how to treat me afterwards." But such announcements are growing less unusual all the time. Across Britain, parish-church notice boards are quietly ablaze with initial letters of decorations awarded new curates and vicars in their old careers. At last month's meeting of the Anglican selection board for ministerial training, the only two candidates over 40 were army majors; at the R.A.F. Chaplain...
...gate" of the book's title is taken from a Chinese poem in which a lonely man in a watchtower looks out across a barbarous and a desolate land. But it is also the gate at which the sentinels of civilization have always stood guard and always died in the end. The scene of this modern tale of horror is Africa, where the Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year...
More emphatic approval of possible exemption came from Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy. "If they do it in the Nat. Sci.," he declared, "then I'm all for it across the board...
...until there was less than a quarter of a mile left in the race that the J.V. increased its tempo as both boats drove forward neck and neck. The timing and bladework of the Crimson eight remained smooth as it raced across the finish line rowing...
...Huskies collected three more hits in the eighth on two hits, a walk and two hit batsmen--both glancing blows off the buttons. After Johnson forced the second and third runs across the plate, Wally Cook was called in to prevent further damage, which he did neatly by striking out catcher Tom Cangiano on a fast ball and two curves. The loss, the varsity's second against two victories was the first for Johnson...