Word: dreadfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreadful Performance. Tynan's professionalism consisted of purple doeskin suits, gold satin shirts and floppy velvet cravats. At Oxford Union debates, where he starred, he occasionally turned a handstand on the speaker's rostrum. He celebrated his 21st birthday by hiring a barge and floating a party down...
Professors' Textbooks. Never averse to minority positions, Barth feels that church denunciations of Communism would be superfluous. Says he: "When the Church witnesses, it moves in fear and trembling, not with the stream but against it ... Must the Church then move with the stream and side with America and...
In 23 years as a Marine aviator, Colonel Frank Schwable (rhymes with able) had demonstrated time and again that he was a brave, cool and efficient fighting man. As he took the stand before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony...
The plot is simple: A condemned father tells his two children, John and Pearl, where he has hidden ten thousand stolen dollars and makes them swear they will never disclose the secret. Most of the book concerns itself with the attempts of the father's released cell mate to make...
"Finally, and by no means least, today the private schools . . . are the last rampart against the dead hand of the educators of educators . . . They choose teachers on a basis of character, ability, and depth of knowledge of the subject to be taught, and are relatively uninterested in training in '...