Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expressed? . . . The 'victorious proletariat' of the one country [here he quotes Lenin] . . . after organizing its own Socialist production, should stand up . . . against the remaining, capitalist world, attracting to itself the oppressed classes of other countries, raising revolts in those countries against the capitalists, [and] in the event of necessity coming out even with armed force [the Red Army] against the exploiting classes and their governments...
...three-man professional jury, asked to judge the Corcoran Gallery of Art's annual show of local artists, decided to apply strict professional standards to what is largely an amateur event. They found only 18 paintings worth hanging on the wall. That left more than 1,000 entries (painters of every school, from mock-Picassos to mock-realists) out in the cold. To comfort the rejected artists, the Corcoran hung their pictures in another part of the gallery...
Second Witch & Violet. Olivia's own case history would probably begin with her father. Walter de Havilland was a British patent attorney living in Tokyo, where Olivia was born in 1916. When she was about eight, an event occurred which -as any cocktail party psychoanalyst knows-was enough to give her complexes to last a lifetime. Her father (in the words of wife Lilian, he "spoke like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan...
...literary event pleased just about everyone: T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize. Long admired by fellow writers, Eliot was honored for "pioneering work in modern poetry." Most agreed that he had more than earned the honor...
...Woods, Chuck Hoclzer, and Bill MacVicar ganged up on Tech in the very first event, the 300-yd, medley relay, and took it by 15 feet in 3:06.1. Captain Jerry Gorman and sophomore Bob Berke took first and second in the 220-yd. freestyle to put the Crimson well ahead. Edgar worked a first place for MIT in the 50-yd. freestyle but was closely followed to the tiles by Marv Hull and Sandy Brown, both of the varsity...