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...says that "many professors are worth more to the university by spending time away." McGeorge Bundy, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, adds that not more than 10% of the faculty are ever absent for long. Bundy asks: "How are we going to strengthen our knowledge of far-off areas unless we have men wandering through darkest Africa? This outside activity enriches and invigorates the place. Without it Harvard would be a much duller place." At week's end Boston papers reported that Bundy himself, a Republican-for-Kennedy, was in line for a Washington...
...after your home and your people") carried on by doctor and the chief of the household. Even in emergencies, no case could be admitted to the hospital without consultation with the family head; week after week Barker dispatched telegrams to the mines near Johannesburg, hoping to reach some far-off Zulu father before his child died of neglect...
...other M.P.s in the Commonwealth -not in India or Ghana or far-off Tonga -would have put up so long with so many hallowed inconveniences. The Houses of Parliament, which grew out of Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including 1,100 rooms, eleven quadrangles and 100 staircases. But aside from Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, not one of the 630 M.P.s has an office all his own-or even rates a permanent desk...
...them. When the gooneys stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking-pink head dye for identincation, flew back to Midway. And the Navy learned that nothing smells up a plane more pungently than a load of airsick gooneys...
Cheek by jowl with all the cheery advance stories about the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks last week in U.S. newspapers were brief and confusing reports of trouble in just the kind of far-off place where Communists like to probe Western intentions. Probably half of all Americans would stumble in pronouncing Laos and even more have trouble locating...