Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course. Beer, who served on the committee which awarded the Jay Prize in American and British History to Conway, was impressed by his academic ability, and introduced him to his Eliot House luncheon group. Conway also impressed the Eliot staff, and--as Master John H. Finley puts it--"he grew on Eliot House like the ivy on our walls." Finley appointed him as the House's first Allston Burr Senior Tutor in 1952. When he became Master of Leverett House this summer, Conway ended a ten year association with Eliot; Finley called this loss "an unmitigated calamity for the House...
Sentiments for delaying debate grew quickly among non-Communist delegations after U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge welcomed the efforts by King Saud to mediate the crisis and appealed to Syria to match "the good faith" of Turkey by agreeing to take part in mediation talks...
...speaker's hunched stoop punctuated by the backthrust of head, the sense that great statements might be made without pomposity or apology, the rolling periods, all inevitably evoked memories of Conservatism's greatest living orator, Winston Churchill. Cheers grew even louder when Hailsham hauled round and delivered a slashing attack on Labor's unionists' "spending spree" "demands without programs and restraint" as trade the greatest threats in the fight against inflation, thundered: "I believe they would drive the qualified, the young and the vigorous to migrate, and leave the aged at home deprived of their savings...
Atmosphere of Delusion. In addition to this departmentalization "was a growing attitude of worship of the gadget." The new computing machines worked at such dazzling speeds that they tended to assume more importance than the ideas fed into them. As projects grew and machines multiplied, "the ideal of the great original scientist [gave] way largely to that of the scientific administrator who is more concerned to parcel out his effort and to keep his machines, staff and ideas busy than to develop his concepts...
Clark pointed to the historical examples of both the ancient Athenian and the modern Western European democracies, which "grew soft" and were consequently taken over by foreign dictators. America cannot afford to maintain this "complacency," he said...