Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitfalls in such a made of living. It is not hard to avoid meeting anyone "different" this way. In fact, it is not hard to avoid meeting anyone. As far as Eliot's alleged snobbishness is concerned, the freshman must choose between a sincerity and non-artificiality in friendship which still leaves open the opportunity to meet those who are different and a forced diversity and seemingly universal friendship. No one, who is himself interesting and friendly, will fail to find others like him, and who will like him in the House...
...worth saying once again that no nation has ever come into the possession of such powers for good or ill, for freedom or tyranny, for friendship or enmity among the peoples of the world, and that no nation in history has used those powers, by and large, with greater vision, restraint, responsibility and courage...
...three-hour conference and a roast-beef lunch with his old chief, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, 74, who looked older and leaner, said: "The President and myself are old friends and have been associated together for many years. He asked me down not only to resume the old friendship but to discuss . . . the general strategic and military situation in various areas of the world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project...
Since then the South has become a land of promise. States are spending taxpayers' money to attract Northern capital. The welcome mat is out and the hand of friendship extended-but not by Senator Johnston." Then the paper took unkind notice of Johnston's New and Fair Deal tendencies and his loud support of Adlai Stevenson. Said the editorial: "There was another term of abuse in Reconstruction. It was 'scalawag,' meaning a Southerner who played along with Washington policies then oppressing the South." -Still, Olin Johnston had his way in the end. In Geneva, still unconfirmed...
...them in the homes of friends, often he picked them up in parks and on beaches. If he liked them, he went straight to their mothers, bowed politely and asked permission to take them for walks or to pantomimes. Then he began "taming" them, i.e., drawing them into intimate friendship. His Diaries record the "taming" of scores of little girls, a few of whom created the rare "whitestone" days in the life of the visionary mathematician. But he seems to have preferred quantity to quality. In 1877 he records and cites by name and nickname a record haul-35 tamed...