Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Progressive Party disintegrated, and La Follette returned to a hostile Republican fold. A few months later, after 21 years, he was unseated by an upstart named Joe McCarthy. He had been too absorbed in his work on the Congressional Reorganization Act to go home and campaign until ten days before the primary. "I didn't go back to talk to the voters," he said ruefully. "My father did just what Joe McCarthy did [to win], and I guess I made a mistake." After that, Young Bob never again answered the call of politics or insurgency. He stayed in Washington...
John Stokes '54, Chairman of the German Exchange Program, said Wednesday night that if the State Department does not advance enough funds to complement the University's part in the program the plan might fold...
...Feeney's views, explained, "The highest authority in the Church had spoken and it confidently hoped that its word would be heeded. It patiently waited that the tempest and strife and vilification would gradually subside, scandal be removed and peace and harmony return to the harrassed members within the fold of Christ." Feeney's persistence in his heretical belief led to a call to Rome, and, following his refusal, excommunication...
...Yours) of the two-a-day vaudeville era. But The Stooge is at its best when it ditches its plot and gives toothy Comic Lewis a chance at his uninhibited mugging, e.g., bashfully kissing a girl for the first time, getting impossibly drunk, wrestling with a fold-up washbasin in a railroad sleeping...
Perhaps the most graphic picture of the phenomenal development over 80 years can be gained by a comparison of the number of courses offered in the college. In 1873 Harvard listed 92 courses; the 1952-3 catalogue lists over 2,000 courses given in the college alone. A 20 fold increase in 80 years; who knows how many times it will increase in the next 80 years