Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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June 15, 1940-4 p.m. France had fallen. Down the main street of a country town staggered a drunken rout of French soldiery, bawling the self-disgust of their nation in a savagely gross song. "Tant qu'il y aura de la merde dans le pot," it went, "ça puera dans la chambre" (When the pot's full, no wonder the room stinks...
...paper, complete equality for national minorities). He found that the younger intellectuals among the U.S.S.R.'s racial minorities are becoming increasingly restive under Russia's rigid control, also found that the Soviet hold on youth is less ironclad than generally supposed, because Communism has lost its aura of rebellion, its "ideological élan." But opposition is locked in the separate minds of millions of individuals, and unless it is organized it is valueless. There is no sign that it is becoming organized. The modern world has several impressive examples of the ability of dictatorships to control their people...
...first step was to find a bean pot with great potential aura. After a search through local potteries, he found a dandy: a 200-qt., 100-lb., 50-year-old affair. Then one day last week he loaded his bean pot into a Yellow Cab, had himself driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert...
...woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense of style and capacity for the grand style, her brilliant gifts of comedy, gesture and language throw a bright aura round a figure that Playwright Bridie leaves unfocused and indistinct...
...authors caution students (and general practitioners who may use the book for reference) that the patient comes first, with his aches & pains. Fancy modern laboratory tests and techniques are all very well, say the authors-but in their place. Laboratory data, they say, "are frequently surrounded by an aura of authority, without heed to the fact that the data are collected by fallible human beings who are capable of committing errors of technique, or who may misinterpret the most precise evidence . . . Even these data cannot release the physician from the necessity of careful observation and study of the patient...