Word: froze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting, the faculty considered three alternative resolutions. Of the other two, one urged that the Corporation not use funds until both the affidavit and oath requirements were removed; and a second--echoing President Pusey's position before he froze the University's NDEA funds last September--that the Corporation "continue to cooperate in the administration of Federal programs aiding education, including those which require a Loyalty Oath and Affidavit of Disbelief...
...enterprising photographer, a slim blonde airlines clerk walked hesitantly toward New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, holding up a small toy elephant for his autograph. In the midst of a smile and a wave as he left his Convair at Chicago's Midway Airport, Rocky suddenly froze when he saw her. Throwing up a defensive hand and moving away, he brusquely set the tone of an uncertain week: "I'd not like to stress anything political. I'm sorry...
Stultz's last words got cut off, and in the American cockpit the crew froze. "We thought he had bought the farm," says Moran [meaning that he had cracked up]. But Stultz came back on, called happily that he had spotted an air marker on a roof below. It told him that he was above Coeymans Hollow. Albany Tower, checking with state police, informed Captain Moran that Stultz was only 20 miles south of the field. Moran radioed...
...candles flared. It seemed the blood froze...
...corresponds to his belief that "the world's best creations describe their own birth.'' The birth of the poem, Pasternak seems to be saying, is like the birth of a world, day emerging from night. The poet encompasses the world and suffers to express it ("Blood froze in the huge Colossus") while the common run of humanity sleeps under the snows. Such is Pasternak's own creative shorthand that -as with any major poet-the possibilities of symbolic interpretation are almost limitless, without ever offering complete certainty as to the "real" meaning. But an electric current...