Word: betwixt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there sits Goody Cory on the beam, suckling a yellow bird betwixt her fingers...
...Betwixt & Between. Frankfurt has invited several anti-Nazi professors back from U.S. exile, but has no course aimed specifically at eliminating Nazi thinking habits. The disillusionment of defeat, says Hallstein, has made most students thoroughly cynical about propaganda and Shulung (indoctrination) of any kind. Says Hallstein: "It would be absolutely the thing that would not have any effect...
With growing vexation, the U.S. people had watched the United Nations, like a kind of 58-legged race, try to walk. It didn't seem to be able to; in fact, it seemed to have reached the point where it was lingering betwixt a balk and a breakdown. Last week, under pressure from thousands of their constituents, six Congressmen trooped before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to plead that the U.S. do something-anything-to strengthen...
...these betwixt-&-betweeners, Brown University was doing its best last week. At Providence, R.I., it had set up a new Veterans College, where 437 ex-G.I.s and eight women who could not meet regular admissions standards were getting a crack at a college education anyway. Some of them had never finished high school, others had barely skidded through with less than the customary 15 college-entrance units. Most of them had applied to a university and been turned down flat...
...people live in or near Sandy Springs," says Moore. So neither has much time left for farming. They are not making much money out of their joint job. Said Co-Mayor Moore last week: "Our policeman collects the taxes. What is left after he is paid is divided equally betwixt Mr. Smith and me. But up to now we have not got anything, and the policeman is due $14 in back...