Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imperious one, and the Court which was filled with his name glitters for us lit by the rays of his black sun. But he was uncertain how far he was entitled to his phantoms, and still more uncertain how far his phantoms were entitled to enter the domain of art. He waited twenty years before giving them, in paint, their tyrannous accent...
...made recording. Just about that time, Orchestra Leader Percy Faith, one of Columbia's stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What's It Like in Paree? ("Is the air champagne at night?/ Is it love's domain at night?"). Next thing she knew, Barbara was taking signals behind the mike. Her peach-fuzz voice suggests a girl who has not quite got the word about Things as yet, but is gratifyingly eager to learn. Columbia has changed Barbara's name on the record from Eichbauer...
Argentina, once the domain of Pérez Jiménez' friend Juan Perón, last week stepped up its drive to get Perón kicked out of his Venezuelan exile-and out of the hemisphere. The Argentine ambassador presented carefully documented proof that Perón was violating the rules of asylum, conducting an espionage and sabotage network from his Caracas apartment. Pérez Jiménez angrily rejected the Argentine protest, abruptly recalled his ambassador from Buenos Aires, and declared the Argentine ambassador persona non grata. Argentina responded by suspending diplomatic relations with Venezuela...
...what Phillips and Home Oil had suspected: the entire area from Great Slave south to Lesser Slave Lake and west to the Rockies, some 100,000 sq. mi. in all, was probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
...recent years, professors have also spent increasing amounts of time working in the public domain as political advisers, government officials, and advisers to private industry. Rather than a luxury, this practice has come to be considered an important and worthwhile part of the academic life. As one Government professor said, these jobs are the "raw material" of the text books...