Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican ways was abrupt and, in Eliot's case, painful. They had arranged to pick Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
Ernest Reuter, the Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention...
...that time Shapley, Kirtley F. Mathor, professor of Geology, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '37, associate professor of History, were described as professors who frequently came "out from behind their books to toe the party line...
...departure, first in the magazine's 73-year-old history, came as a surprise to both Harvard and Radcliffe students. Opinion across the Common tended to be favorable to the plan, most students viewing this increased tie with the College warmly...
Elliott Perkins '23, instructor in History, emphasized the part that religious feeling and "matters of principle" played in swaying the middle classes during the English Civil War. "Look at the members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony," Perkins said. "Their motives came more from principles than from economics. In the seventeenth century, religion was the Englishman's intellectual food...