Word: craven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John J. Craven, Jr.--Leverett House; Harvard Band; Dudley Reporter; House Athletics; Harvard Pre-Medical Society; Harvard Social Relations Society; Ushers Club...
Will we never learn that Soviet ultimatums and "inflexible positions" are no more than bargaining points, always successful against craven expediency, but vulnerable to an equally inflexible insistence on right and morality...
...tart dialogue and sharp observations of the stupidities of the gentlemen friends and customers make a racy and amusing picture of high and low life in Regency London. As Harriette tells it, she left her father's house at 15 to "place myself under [the] protection" of Lord Craven. The stolid lord proved "a dead bore," talking far into the night about cocoa trees. "I was not depraved enough to determine immediately on a new choice," says Harriette, "and yet I often thought about it. How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honourable Frederick Lamb was my constant...
...Duke Vanishes. When Craven heard of her visits with Lamb and turned her out, Harriette told herself, "This is what one gets by acting with principle." She never made the same mistake again. Having left Craven for Lamb, she left Lamb for the Duke of Argyll. Entertaining a likely buck at the opera, Harriette would sigh: "His legs were so beautiful, and his skin so clear and transparent . . . and 30,000 a year besides." The proudest titles of Britain vied for her favor; the heirs to great fortunes rushed from Oxford and Cambridge to throng her opera...
...schools. The simplest proposal came from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Its representatives wanted the court to set a firm deadline for complete integration, not later than September 1956. Lawyers for Southern and border states pleaded for delay. Delaware's Attorney General J. D. Craven resisted any definite deadline, saying: "We are a divided and a troubled people ... I think it would be presumptuous of me to name a date...