Word: fored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority perpetrates folly, or cry wolf long after the sheep have been killed. From now until 1960, Bowles maintains, the Deemocrats must persistently repudiate the Administration's blunders in foreign and domestic affairs with eloquence and determination, yet at the same time set forth constructive, intelligent, and fore-sighted alternatives...
Author McMinnies is not a novelist of the first rank, but her second book puts her well in the fore of the usual crowded field panting for the Ladies' Plate. The shrewd characters who make book on form -the book-clubmakers-have given her the accolade (Book-of-the-Month). After the novel's male characters have rescued Milly from the consequences of her own idiocy, the heroine, seemingly immune from disaster, asks her husband: "Darling, where do you suppose we'll go next?" Fans of Milly-or of Author McMinnies -can hardly wait to find...
Probably disheartened by these muffed chances, the varsity then gave way be- fore the Bruin's relentless touchdown march, the score coming on the game's last play, a roll-out by quarterback Frank Finney...
...poets, essayists and novelists of London's usually imperturbable P.E.N. Club listened in horror. Famed Oxford Historian (The Churchills) Alfred Leslie Rowse was saying: Some British intellectuals "very much to the'fore" are "highly unrepresentative" of British intellectualism and "create a pretty general disrespect for the rest of us." His No. 1 target: Philosopher Bertrand Russell...
...Leopard & the Monkey. In 1951 the Chagga chose as their Paramount Chief Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle, 43, well-educated (Cambridge and the London School of Economics) grandson of a chief who ruled during the years be fore World War I when Tanganyika was a German protectorate. To his own people, Marealle II is known as Mangi Mkuu (Great Chief), to the whites of Tanganyika, he is King Tom. But by whatever name he is known, he is one of Africa's most remarkable statesmen. He runs his country through a hierarchy of elected and hereditary councils which are topped...