Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth's legitimacy is in doubt, however, where does that leave poor Nausicaa, who was identified as a "rare form of Greek disease"? Although this might have been merely grim humor, another identification in the same course--Hum 2--was more purposefully thought out. The passage, from the Divine Comedy, described Mathilda taking Dante across the river Lethe, and giving him a symbolic baptism--washing away sins so he can enter Paradise. Mathilda tells Dante, "Hold me! Hold...
...defend is not resting on the six months' stay of political execution that Khrushchev so grandly conceded. Hardly 1% of its bank deposits have fled to safer havens in the West since the crisis began; only a few factory orders have been canceled. Buildings still mushroom, factories still hum, refugees still pour in, as many as 2,000 a week, from Communist Germany...
...slows, and the city's center fills with men, women and children with pesos in their pockets. They mill through Sears, Roebuck, buying made-in-Mexico soap, blankets, toys and washing machines. They sit in chrome chairs along barbershop and beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening to the hum of electric clippers and dryers. Young wives come in fashionable maternity middy blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town of Tequila...
There is a possibility, Martin remarked, that Sauer will be brought into the College full-time next year, to lecture in some lower level General Education course, such as Hum...
...Kennedy, is willing to spend any amount of money to get him elected-an idea forcefully denied by Kennedy and carefully spread by his opponents ("He's a hell of an attractive fellow," says a Meyner man, "but he's trying to buy the convention"). Also, Hum-phreyites will make it clear to farmers that Kennedy has, on occasion, voted against high price supports (although he won the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 100% approval for his votes on 15 key issues in the 85th Congress...