Word: injection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very existence to the Provost. He chaired the committee which recommended it, adding much to the plan from his own store of ideas, and skillfully combining the ideas of others, then nursed it through a highly critical Faculty with no crippling changes. The Bender Plan, an attempt to inject the educational intimacy of the past into the expanded College of today, is equally the product of his initiative and persistence...
Just how much religious emphasis the new director will inject into the running of Brooks House depends largely on the committee's choice. It is significant, however, that both President Conant and Provost Buck feel the new man should have a large say in who should occupy the position of PBH's graduate secretary. There is nothing to prevent him also from being a clergyman, like the graduate secretary of Yale's social service center, Dwight Hall...
...apparition outside were in hopelessly bad taste. Yet Britain's Colonial Office takes the Gold Coast dead seriously. Major James Lillie-Costello, the monocled press officer who handles Nkrumah for the British government, treats the Prime Minister as if he were Winston Churchill, manages to inject half a dozen "Sirs" into every conversation...
...unsatisfying ending, his take off on Moliere, Shakespeare, and Chekov are quite amusing. The four colonels are allowed to try their amatory luck with Miss Palmer in the enchanted castle, and they are given a choice of any historical period as a setting. This allows Ustinov to inject his parodies...
When the poet turns to an historical event in which to inject emotions of his own life and age, he is more successful. Conquistador, a long poem about the conquest of Mexico, reveals, a thorough understanding of war's effect on individuals. Composed in three-line classic meter, the poem is free of obtrusive personal comment and conveys brilliantly the horror of death, the elation of victory, and the awe of discovering new land...