Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. fear was not so much that Russia would risk all-out war by Middle Eastern aggression, as such, but rather that it would dangerously spread its influence in the Arab world by appearing as the noisy champion of Arab Syria. The Eisenhower-Macmillan talks would dwell less on the intramural problems of the Middle East than on methods of keeping the Russian influence...
...fruitfull countrey, inhabited with pasturing people, which dwell in the Summer season upon mountains, and in Winter they remoove into the valleyes . . . in carravans . . . of people and cattell, carrying all their wives, children and baggage...
...disjointed welter of plots occasionally departs from animal husbandry to dwell upon balmy Santa Marta's social and racial ferments. It seems that the happy islanders, almost all of some Negro ancestry, sometimes get irritated by the snootiness of the British colonial plantation owners. Their self-seeking messiah (played like a talking totem pole by Singer Harry Belafonte) is trying to improve their lot by shaking hands with all of them, sullenly muttering into his champagne at white folks' garden parties, making louder speeches over coconut milk about his dedication to equality and self-government. Belafonte...
...need not dwell on his years of service in this community, but prefer to speak of the good fortune of the University in having in its janitorial staff a person who has contributed so much to the Harvard education of so many young men. During two decades at the Commuters' Center in Dudley and then in Claverly Hall his example and, when he thought it necessary, his criticisms have taught countless undergraduates the value of gentlemanly conduct and of directness and integrity for leading a good life. It was a pleasure to be associated with him for the two years...
...Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment of the James Lecturer, Oppenheimer. I could not avoid the conclusion that the CRIMSON was, in this instance, trying to effect...