Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stream the tugs cast off. The Queen Mary, carrying 1,883 passengers, was on her own, on one of the most momentous of her many momentous voyages-her first run 'as a luxury liner since World War II. As the Isle of Wight fell astern, and she glided majestically past the coast of England, the Queen was not only steaming for New York but out of an all but vanished age-an age of which she had once been a sumptuous symbol, and whose splendor (and profits sorely needed by Britons) she was making a gallant attempt to recapture...
After seven years of intermittent carving, stroking, currying and patting, 70-year-old Herbert Haseltine had completed at last his "masterpiece"-a bigger-than-life-size plaster cast of famed race horse...
...Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing on, as the Indians may have done, until wind and currents actually cast it on the beach of some island, the Kon-Tiki expedition hopes to reach Tahiti, 750 miles dead ahead...
While Dr. Shimer and two of his professors argued with the trustees, students marched around the campus bearing placards: "We Want Shimer," "Let Him without Sin Cast the First Stone." Marietta's trustees were unyielding. Dr. Shimer at last agreed to resign...
Bible Belting. When Quincy Beltram of the International Edge Tool Co. of Newark, NJ. was asked by the state mediation board why he had fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another...