Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world must find a way to prevent war from ever occurring if it is to avoid total destruction on the scale which I saw at Nagasaki," insisted Dr. Herbert W. Horne '37, in a speech last night before the World Federalists...
...than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what he said last week in the New York Times. Many "big name" visitors, particularly political figures, find it hard to go beyond their public pronouncements, and it seems extravagant to spend so much money for such a superficial contact...
Today there are some signs that the court-appointed monitors, despite the odds they find themselves working against, may succeed in cleaning up the union. A few scattered unions have voted in "reform" officials to replace the former supporters of Hoffa. But at the same time, the New York organizer of the Teamsters, long famed for his honesty, has been replaced by a known stooge of Hoffa who was installed by the Executive Committee of the international. Every step forward seems to involve another backward...
...plan as "inadequate" and "pitifully small." When a copy of the release was handed to McCone while he was still on the stand, he grew red with anger, waved it in the air, cried: "I just don't know why I am here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written up before he even heard what I had to say. If you want me to come up and testify, listen to me, and then make up your minds." Holifield replied with a maxim oft quoted by Harry Truman...
...Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace that will keep him spiritually sane. If Chance and Macgrady sometimes probe their souls to the edge of tiresomeness, Author Fielding always intervenes just in time with the flash and verve of a man who knows that a good story is the novelist's own form...