Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminary's first students lived in cold stone cells with no heat, slept on corn-husk mattresses, fought malaria and fleas. But life was brightened by their robes (all of Rome's foreign seminarians wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college considered green, but the final choice was black cassocks with red buttons and sash and blue facings which, together with a white Roman collar, added up to the U.S. colors (the first class even had a brass star on each shoe strap...
...morning before he strapped it on his wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping the ephemeral sweetness of things. His garden drew from him a typically overtrained, anxious and caressing response: he found the lichen "as gorgeous as an Aztec or Maya mosaic," and the moss "of a soft emerald that beds your eye as reposefully as the greens in a Giorgione or Bonifazio...
Most important of all, the Dodgers found they could stop the White Sox cold whenever they pleased merely by calling in Larry Sherry to have some fun on the mound. Admits Chicago Manager Al Lopez: "Sherry was the difference...
...were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post's White House Correspondent Bob Spivack that the FBI was probably recording their conversation in Spivack's car. Installed at the Shoreham Hotel, Dolly even changed rooms, inspected the garbage can ("I found some paper and wires which weren't hitched to anything"), and was not reassured when the apprehensive Spivack took his leave of her room with a farewell addressed to the FBI microphones, "Goodbye, everybody...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging." The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government. Harvard...