Word: horizonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madison looms large on the delegates' horizon, but there are many other duties that will raise themselves formidably both before and after the annual convention. No sooner will the hubbub of the vote die down than the Student Council will be upon them with a series of six or seven daily orientation meetings beginning Tuesday. Since the NSA delegates are also scheduled to represent the College at the Regional meeting on May 15, before that time they must absorb knowledge of all that the Council has done in the past year and plans to do in the coming year...
...Neill got a soaking in London too. The Times Literary Supplement seized the occasion of The Iceman Cometh's publication there to beat him black & blue. The characters in his plays were described as generally "ineffectual egotists," his philosophy was "jejune," Strange Interlude "badly bungled," Beyond the Horizon's leading man "a peevish Hamlet who whines and snivels," and the O'Neill dramaturgy generally "the sort of stuff that might be written by an earnest sophomore...
...Horizon. ECA's sailing orders were not explicit. The administrator was ordered to bring back strategic materials in partial recompense for U.S. deliveries. He was to see that none of the $5.3 billion, in the shape of potential war materials, filtered through the Iron Curtain, and that the 16 nations tidied up their economies in a way that suited the U.S. But he was given the widest latitude, chiefly because no one knew exactly how to plot ECA's course beyond the visible horizon...
...persuasive ring. And he was happy to be back. This summer, European weather permitting, Reporter Murrow hopes to cover the U.S. presidential campaign. But he isn't counting on it: "You never can tell where or what the big news story is going to be. My horizon is never more than thirty days ahead...
Editor Bowden had a bitter moment-his paper would not be published for two days. Then he remembered that he was the Okeechobee correspondent for the Associated Press. He telephoned the A.P. office in Jacksonville. A few hours later, the whole U.S. journalistic horizon glowed a bright pink with the fireworks he had touched...