Word: dozes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tillich lives with his wife in a cluttered, 3½-room apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge (his son René Stephen, 24, is a Harvard student, his daughter Erdmuthe Christiane Farris, 33, a Manhattan housewife). At 72, Tillich has all his old intellectual vigor, though he may doze off for moments during a conversation, and he goes through a regular, 10-minute "yawning period" every day at 6 p.m. An occasional stimulant at that time: cognac, which is kept in his office filing cabinet under "H" (for Hennessy). Tillich is likely to be on the road lecturing three...
Citation: "Because you bear a name behind whose renown many would doze, you have been privileged to personify the truth that whatever else comes readymade, there are nothing but selfmade...
...versatile Virtuoso Elliott, heard here only on vibes and the mellophone. It is worth the price of admission ($3.98) to hear Jazz Me Blues bellowed on the mellophone, which is a country cousin of the French horn and sounds something like a trombone with a code in its doze...
...matter what he happened to be doing, he seemed able to doze off. He might be writing on the blackboard, and then, right in the middle of a sentence, collapse in a cloud of chalk dust for a nap. On such occasions, his pupils made the most of things. Sometimes they tied him to his chair; other times they would simply take French leave-firmly locking the headmaster in as they went...
...diplomacy, Salisbury at last got the peers to accept his motion, but only after the Lords had made sure no positive threat was involved to their ancient prerogative of staying home. "I do not expect anything to come of it," murmured one peer as he settled himself for a doze."Nothing ever does...