Word: cauldron
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More than 90% of Wayne's students are from lunch-bucket Detroit, a cauldron of every conceivable ethnic strain, salted by rising expectations. They are the sons of Armenians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Irish and Germans. They are the daughters of Southerners, black and white, who migrated north to the assembly lines. They are overalled machinists and off-duty policemen (one cop this year won a Woodrow Wilson fellowship). And 72% of them work in order to study-the average graduate takes nearly six years to earn a diploma...
...acted like some crazed quack in a horror movie. A squat, curmudgeonly eccentric, he jounced through London in a cart hauled by three Asiatic water buffaloes. A moatless drawbridge guarded his rambling home at 12 Leicester Square. In the fetid basement of his country villa, a vast copper cauldron was kept at the boil; there he melted down human and animal corpses to get fresh skeletons for his grisly pathological museum of pickled fetuses, stuffed one-eyed pigs and cock-plumed hens. There may have been, as his contemporaries thought, more madness than method in his research, but dour John...
...about the Program. It was generally used to refer to the teaching unit in which the Program experience would occur; but beyond this, no one was sure exactly what it meant. It was a word upon which different teachers were free to put different interpretations. It was an empty cauldron into which a variety of educational ideas and attitudes might be poured...
...arrived to try to improve Jordan's incredible desert railroads (of 21 locomotives, only five are operable) and to devise a method of speeding up the unloading of cargo at the shallow-draft port of Aqaba. For the British, who are holding the lid tight on this boiling cauldron, the situation is becoming critical. Each possible move seems to create more problems than it solves...
...Checkers speech) got up at a meeting of state Republican chairmen last week in Washington and warned: "The trouble with Republicans is that when they get into trouble they start acting like a bunch of cannibals." Still, the chairmen themselves were inclined to let Adams stew in the cauldron. Of the 42 attending the meeting, 13 thought that Adams ought to quit; twelve shakily supported Ike ("The coach has left him in. I'm a team player"); the remaining 17 were noncommittal...