Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross-country team, bolstered by a host of outstanding runners from last year's freshman team, but weakened by the graduation of Hal Gerry, will open its 1954 season today against the University of Massachusetts at Franklin Park...
...rocketed from the internecine warfare of the Partisan Review to the cover of Time in the course of the summer, plays the part of a flea upon the body intellectual, continually spurring it on to new efforts. Like any such insect, he occasionally gets under the skin of the host upon whom he depends for existence. It is not surprising that Mr. Kaplowitz, plagued to distraction by Riesman, petulantly scolds him for lacking virtues he never attempted to possess. "Riesman's plethoric insights never come together to form a conscious, let alone conscientious stand." What flea ever took a conscientious...
...academic world today; part of it is self inflicted. Those who testify freely are too often branded as appeasers by their colleagues. One professor, however, who gives full and thoughtful testimony will usually do more to educate a committee and the general public than will the silence of a host of men invoking the Fifth Amendment...
...woman's womb and its workings have been grossly misunderstood. For centuries, the uterus was supposed to have an independent life and motility of its own. It was believed to be the cause of hysteria, which was derived from the Greek word for womb (varepo.). Even today, a "host of taboos, legends and mysteries" persist. So say two Salt Lake City psychiatrists in the current issue of GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice). According to Drs. C. H. Hardin Branch and David E. Reiser, "otherwise sophisticated and intelligent" women are extremely naive in their attitude...
Venice's International Festival of Contemporary Music, which used to play host to such startling modern operas as Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Dmitry Shostakovich's The Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, last week unveiled a collaboration between two chilly and notably elegant talents: Britain's Composer Benjamin Britten and America's late, great Author Henry James. The work: Britten's opera version of The Turn of the Screw...