Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lake the John Reed Club, religion, is being driven underground at Harvard. Forced to the damp sub-cellars of Eliot House, faith, like a frightened and desperate mongoose, flees the heights. Those who seek partial beauty in the secular ornaments of music are entitled to use the glorious Eliot Tower--granted a favored position by those who know not what they worship. Those who seek the more basic truth, shifty and apologetic, must beg a subterranean clothes-closet...
...Century Plants (Agave), which burst forth in one glorious bloom and then die. A good source of hard fibers, they also produce alcohol (including the entire supply of Mexico's national alcoholic drinks -tequila, mescal, pulque...
Major General Oliver Prince ("O.P.") Smith, 57, last week was on his way back 'to the U.S. and a new assignment, after commanding the 1st Marine Division with distinction for seven bloody and glorious months in Korea (TIME, Sept. 25). The 1st's new boss was another fighter of the same "old breed": Major General Gerald C. Thomas, 56, who enlisted in the Corps in 1917, won a battlefield commission during World...
...mercy, beat at my door, and the All Highest entered without keys. I recite the rosary-the glorious mysteries-and I know Our Lady is a comforter to the afflicted, and often my lips cannot form the words because my heart is overfull...
...this generation, the predominant British feelings toward Asia are guilt and a sense of failure. The glorious contributions to Asia of British justice and organization are forgotten. Only the seamy side of imperialism is remembered. On many subjects, Truman could profitably use British wisdom and experience. But to take British guidance on Asia is like taking guidance on credit and currency problems from Chiang Kaishek...