Word: enlighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrounding Ike, said Stevenson, have dealt "the ultimate indignity to the democratic process": they seek to "merchandise candidates like breakfast cereal." The result: "No Administration has ever before enjoyed such uncritical and enthusiastic support." But has it used this opportunity "to elevate us? To enlighten us? To inspire us?" The delegates answered with thunderous "noes." The truth, he declared, is that not everybody at home is prosperous and that, despite what the President has said, our prestige abroad "has probably never been lower," and "we are losing the cold...
...State, former Governor James Byrnes; South Carolina's two U.S. Senators, Olin Johnston and Strom Thur. mond; and the principal speaker of the evening, Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. A retired Presbyterian minister, L. B. McCord, began the meeting with a prayer: "If we're wrong, enlighten our minds, enlarge our hearts. Help us in our efforts to preserve our race and our country." When a Confederate flag was unfurled from the second-floor balcony, the citizens shouted their approval...
...January the Fund for the Republic, a $15 million Ford Foundation offshoot, completed the first of 50-odd projects it has launched to enlighten the U.S. about its civil rights. The project, supervised by Harvard Law Professor Arthur E. Suther land: a 474-page Bibliography on the Communist Problem in the U.S., which took 18 months and $67,000 to prepare. Last week the book received scathing criticism...
...warning in writing. During the year "hundreds" of such warnings are sent out by the PT office. If a receiver of one neglects it and exceeds his four allotted cuts in one term, he is called in for a talk with Parker. If the session does not enlighten the rules infringes, the Dean's Office may place him on probation. This happens only if the offender has low marks, Parker said. But if he still has not fulfilled the requirements by his junior year, he will...
...with the Loincloth. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has tried hard to live up to its founders' aims: "To unfold, enlighten and invigorate the talents of our countrymen." It got off to a glowing start when Philadelphia's Nicholas Biddle, then secretary to the U.S. Minister to France, flattered Napoleon into sending plaster casts of the classic statues his armies had just looted from Italy. From other donors came more contributions, including one shipment of paintings from Europe which was captured by the British in the War of 1812, released only after British courts held them...