Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite British myth that dies hard is that two Englishmen stranded on a desert island would not speak until properly introduced. Many an American tourist has found the silence in a British railway carriage oppressive. But last week, with an air of discovery, the Manchester Guardian reported the existence in England of something called the Conversing Travelers' Association. The Guardian triumphantly uncovered "what appear to be two facts about the association: it was formed at Letchworth in 1950, and it now has about 1,000 members indulging, as a matter of principle, in 'topical conversation with strangers...
...clown is the merest shadow of his traditional former self. The showing up of Parolles for what he is, though richly deserved, is not really funny. Nor is it comical to see a count try to weasel out of his King's command; or to see him coldly desert his wife on their wedding day; or to see a woman arrange for her husband to commit (as he thinks) adultery...
...brought before the judgment seat of Christ and ordered to identify himself. He said that he was a Christian, but this was denied: "Thou liest. Thou art a Ciceronian, for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies of his life to correcting and im proving the Latin texts of the Old and New Testaments in Rome and Bethlehem, later translated the Bible into its most...
Across Dr. Heller's desk, from his far-flung research fields, flow curious and varied intelligence items-students gathering puffball mushrooms, desert rats that have learned to smoke, a drug made from a chemical relative of DDT, a plastic "iron lung'' for mice. To him, they all fit tiny corners of the vast jigsaw that must be filled in before cancer can be conquered. Meanwhile, his reports on the enemy's inroads are grim...
...less interested in money than she was in fun. She was delighted when Bert Swift "began to spend some of his pork fat on me," but she was always ready to go racing off to Arabia with only one maid and 85 hats to dynamite for turquoise in the desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count in Japan, found herself...