Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mature? To the charge of pornography, Nabokov in effect replies, in the Anchor Review, that he need not have gone to this much trouble to be pornographic since "in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches." One critic believes that what Nabokov intended was "a joke on/our national cant about Youth." Graham Greene, who calls Lolita a "distinguished novel," has founded a fictitious anti-pornographic society which needles the book's moralistic critics. Harvard's Professor Harry Levin insists Lolita is "a great book, not primarily sexual at all . . . a symbol...
...modified version also proved too strong for the Crimson, despite the services of Dyer. The Yale swimmers had built a lead of nearly two body lengths by the time Dyer took off on the anchor leg. In spite of a sprint that brought him within a quarter of a length of Anderson, Dyer faded slightly on the last lap and the Elis were home safe...
There were other accomplishments. She negotiated the NATO status-of-forces agreement, which gives the Western forces a firm military anchor in Italy. And she coordinated diplomatic overseas planning for the potentially hazardous-but successful-evacuation of some 2,800 Americans from the Middle East, principally by the U.S. Sixth Fleet under Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown...
Turkey (pop. 24,110,000). Hates and fears Russia, whether Russia is Communist or not. A secularized Mos lem state, very friendly to the U.S., Turkey is the eastern anchor of NATO. Its 500,000-man army is the area's best. Sides with Britain over Cyprus. Turks dislike Nasser, chiefly because he opened the door to the Russians in the Middle East...
...globe and anchor boys have done it again. As they told my husband, while he was on active duty: "If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued...