Word: foray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being a "wop" makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend die during his "baptism of fire" in World War I; Jay defending a pair of Sacco-Vanzetti-like philosophical anarchists without...
...Harvard had not come to the Hanover hills to lose this ball game. Responding with almost fanatic zeal to the Big Green's challenge, the Crimson proceeded to play the tiring Indians off their collective feet. In fact after its initial foray the Green was able to take only a couple of shots at Clark, so successful was Harvard's defense and midfields at riding the Indians up and down the soggy turf...
Some of Scelba's political colleagues, who accuse him of strong-arm methods, were not reassured by his non-Fascist pledge. Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around...
...A.M.A.'s high command rehired the high-powered publicity firm of Whitaker & Baxter, which last year led the A.M.A.'s foray into national politics. It also steamrollered into silence a scattering of delegates who favored the A.M.A.'s end (defeating federal health insurance), but not its ballyhooing means...
When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), may raise some startled eyebrows among both psychoanalysts and Christians. For Author Sanders picks Freud's own weapons to defend Christianity...