Word: foes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of Roman Catholicism. After 435 years, the alarm bells still ring most wildly and the panic flags still flutter most furiously when Rome is mentioned. Not all of this response is neurotic anxiety, of course. It was Rome with whom the Reformers broke; she is the ancient foe; her truth still challenges ours . . . Yet the ferocity of some anti-Roman Catholicism this month will have more behind it than any of this. There is a neurotic Protestant anxiety about Rome which, far from safeguarding Protestantism, gets in the way of its positive self-realization and fulfillment...
...Carmichael's ditty was ringing round the world, useful, so they both believed, to friend and foe. In the Philippines a native combo dewed the eyes of the crew of an LST with a proud performance of Stardust. In Burma U.S. troops heard Tokyo Rose play it at midnight. In Tokyo a Japanese journalist named Tateishi and two pals huddled in a closet during a B-29 raid, listening to Stardust on a portable phonograph...
Among the other originals: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Madame Delphine Delamare, the faithless young wife of a middle-aged doctor who had studied medicine under Flaubert's father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe patronized); Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Deacon William Brodie, by day a respectable Edinburgh town councilman who at night led a notorious gang of thieves and kept two mistresses). Most of them were interesting people; some were fascinating. But they all have one thing...
Against a strong Trinity eleven the Crimson will have to be at least as good as it was Saturday in winning over Cornell; if it can be, it can probably win. But this is no foe to take lightly; last year's win was difficult to get and Trinity had a good freshman squad and should be improved now. Besides the Crimson must travel to the game by bus and may be stiff and tired from the 100-mile ride...
Pearson also pictured Batista as a staunch foe of Communism, but neglected to mention that the President had legalized the Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally...