Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five days they rose at 4:30 a.m., cleaned their own rooms and swept the temple grounds, and meditated. Anyone who found his mind wandering was supposed to unclasp his hands as a signal, whereupon a waiting monk gave him three sharp thwacks with a stick. Twice a day Chief Abbot Sogen Asahina, 59, lectured them. "When you are in your bus, seated at the wheel or talking to passengers, and feel fatigue overcoming you, stop what you are doing, and for ten minutes sit upright with your hands clasped. Empty your mind of everything. Just meditate. After ten minutes...
...Kemsley newspaper empire in 1952, when Lord Rothermere bought the Daily Graphic (now the Daily Sketch). Concentrating on his Sunday Times, Kemsley preserved its status as Britain's leading Sunday paper. Wrote the competing Observer last week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors, and scarcely a trace of a Welsh accent...
...many years have passed since then. But--to coin a phrase--the more things change the more they remain the same. In the 1930's the chief campus concern was: how many goldfish can a college student swallow at one sitting? Today, the great question seems to be this: how many students can inhabit a telephone booth at once? (A connection between the booth and the fish also arises from the fact that buthia is ancient Greek for "water animals...
Birrell's New York lawyer has said he will advise Birrell to come home and fight the case. But convicting him will be no easy task because of the intricacy of his maneuvers. Said John Devaney, chief of the New York SEC's fraud division: "Birrell's strategy is well-nigh infallible...
...Chastity? Originally planned as part of Comfort Me with Apples (TIME, April 30, 1953). the new book almost seems like a double take of the earlier novel. The hero is again Chick Swallow, the poor man's Freud, who writes a lonelyhearts column called "The Lamplighter." His chief anxiety is still his sophomoric brother-in-law Nickie Sherman, a fool in bon motley. In Comfort, Nickie salvaged his ego by catching a crook; in Tents, Nickie becomes a crook, at odd hours, and ends up chasing his own split personality. In Comfort, the happily married Chick found himself unaccountably...