Word: cower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further consequence of this thorough community co-operation is frequently the assumption of a powerful role by the Parent-Teacher Associations associated with the school system. Principals have been known to cower in fear of the ladies who exert influence through cake sales and bridge parties, and in schools with wealthy PTA's, a great many school functions, frequently including academic ones, become complacently dependent upon these women...
...President, the fight for reciprocal-trade extension without crippling amendments involves a national choice in which "every American can have a part." If enough U.S. citizens make themselves heard. Congress will listen. On the one hand, the nation can choose the way of "economic isolationism" and "cower behind new trade walls of our own building," abandoning the rest of the world to "those less blind to the events and tides now surging in the affairs of men." Or it can refuse to take the downward path and push "forward strongly along the clear road to greater . . . security and opportunity...
...really matters is Schnabel's playing. To hear him is suddenly to see light across the generations that separate the composer from today; to be delighted at Schnabel's surprising methods of treating Beethoven's surprising turns of phrase; to laugh or sigh, sometimes almost to cower in fright. This playing has the kind of sanity that is expressed in one of Schnabel's provocative remarks. "Back around the turn of the century," he once said, "it became the idea that Beethoven's opening theme in the Fifth Symphony was fate knocking at the door...
...Vision deals with the apocalyptic explosion of a superbomb. Its ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the city, men, women and children sleep, while their "leaders and wise men" anxiously scan the heavens, "but it was too late." There is a shudder of light and, in all the raised faces, eyes melt in their sockets...
...resent the distorted picture TIME is giving to millions of Americans. One would think that 45 million Arabs cower under the truculence of 1.5 million Jews, who, for some unknown reason, wish to beat the Middle East to its knees. If TIME is anti-Israel, let it say so openly. This intellectual pussyfooting is not what I would call courageous journalism...