Word: homed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President and Mrs. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy St. as usual on the first Sunday of the month, Dec. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will be happy to welcome members of the Faculties and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
Dave Crosby, a forward a year ago, has switched to defense and rounds out the group. Still learning the fundamentals of his new slot he has been much more at home on his own side of the blue line, and has caused Weiland to be "very pleased with the way he's shaping...
...summer of 1945, Japanese naval power was bottled up in its own home waters. After months and years of island hopping, soldiers and sailors alike felt the elation of the coming kill. Yet South Pacific veterans also felt twinges of peculiar melancholy, which Historian Morison subtly senses and records: "You might be sick of the magnificent scenery, hate the steaming climate, and loathe the squawks of the white cockatoos; but something of you had been left behind, irrevocably; and you hated to think of the jungle taking over roads and airstrips ... As Virgil makes Aeneas deplore the city...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...
...Ugly American pointed out, are career officials, carefully and intensively trained in the language, history and sociology of the nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political service on the home front in selecting its diplomats. The result is a hit-or-miss system that occasionally succeeds, but more often ends up in quiet failure or conspicuous disaster...