Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the paintings on exhibition are El Greco's "Fray Felix Hortension Palavicino," Van Der Weyden's "St. Luke Painting the Madonna," and Titian's "St. Catherine of Alexandria...
Columbia could, if Little so desired, turn the game into a wholly ethereal fray, because both junior quarterback Mitch Price and his veteran substitute, Kermit Tracy, are more than passing fair from the Columbia...
...Guatemalans were beginning to wonder whether Arbenz wanted to save the nation from the Red totalitarians. No Communist himself, he seemed to be a prisoner of the Communist bureaucrats, politicos and union bosses who grabbed power during the Arevalo regime. Said a student wounded during last week's fray: "We Guatemalans must face up to the fact that ours is the only country west of the Iron Curtain where peaceful anti-Communist demonstrators are dispersed by government bullets...
...disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with certain granitelike inner qualities: tenacity, common sense, Old Testament righteousness, and a God-fearing faith in the cause of freedom and collective security...
This and kindred myths (at their height in the 19305) have now begun to fray because they run counter to the American experience o-f the last nine years. Henry Steele Commager's book may help to finish the job, and to put the Civil War back where it belongs-in the center of the American story. With the war left out, the American character is incomprehensible, and dangerously so. In 1861 and in 1950, the American represented himself (and believed himself) as despising politics and loving comfort above all men. Yet the American has always been deeply political...