Word: ingrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curley would have no more chance of re-election in November than of playing halfback for Harvard. At 74, after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...
...full-time course for credit and such a course should be required for many graduate degrees, because the majority of professional people in the academic world go into teaching, not research. The present graduate curriculum creates a frame of mind often specialized and sophisticated to an ingrown stage, not oriented to teaching--which requires simplification and work with unmotivated students...
...analogy would hold between one of these situations and the framework of a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage. The humor, which is reminiscent of vandeville in its pacing and gags, stems from the contrast between life backstage and the rehearsing of Shakespeare...
...Lucifer with a Book" describes the thoughts and experiences of a young veteran during his first--and last--year as an instructor at The Academy Fortunately gifted with more than a little insight and maturity, Guy Hudson unsuccessfully bucks the sham and hypocrisy of the school's ingrown existence, causing a mild upheaval in the Faculty. He is all too glad to leave The Academy in June with his pregnant sweetheart (a teacher at the neighboring Girls' School...
...month sentence at the end of five months,* one month before he would have been eligible for parole. Outwardly, the only sign of Boss Curley's ordeal was a small strip of adhesive tape under his right eye, to keep him from irritating his ingrown eyelashes. His health? "I come back ten years younger," said Jim Curley...