Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London School of Economics, Kenyatta studied anthropology and fell among Marxist intellectuals. He made several trips to Moscow. In 1934 he shared an apartment with Paul Robeson while the American Communist was making Sanders of the River. He married an English schoolteacher, Edna Grace Clarke, and had a son named Peter, but abandoned both when he returned to Kenya in 1946. By then he was a powerful man among the million-strong Kikuyu. He formed the Kenya African Union and established schools in which the teaching was based on old Kikuyu tribal lore and customs, including black magic...
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by the grace of Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, was an arrogant, auburn-haired New England dandy with a taste for rich widows and a talent for cultivating royalty. Egotistical and a thoroughgoing snob, he deserted the colonies during the American Revolution and went into the pay of the British. But for all his faults, he was a remarkable scientist. In a bright, admiring new book, An American in Europe (Rider & Co., London), British Journalist Egon Larsen celebrates the 200th birthday of "the insufferable genius...
...Among the 464 U.S. members of the Knights of Grace, the order's lowest category: Henry Ford II, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...were sitting, port and cigar at hand, in the common room of some distant planet populated by Oxford dons, Professor Arnold Toynbee looks down on the world and its worries with the Long View of history. Man, says Toynbee, with a Balliol-bred benignity of wit and grace of phrasing, is but a scurrying creature on a cosmic anthill who may be, but is not necessarily, doomed. It all depends on how the scurriers respond to challenge...
...itself by destroying its bases. If we have no air defense, we are only to retaliate after being devastated. Surely this cannot be accepted . . . The truth is that the reasoning of the air generals only makes sense if this country is planning preventive war within the short time of grace still remaining...