Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose brother John Foster had just flown off to confer with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer about Brandt's Russia-menaced city. Said Brandt: "I will tell my friends in the U.S. about free Berlin . . . You can rely on the people of the city of Berlin, as the Berliners know they can rely on the people...
...borders of his Oregon-sized country. As the head of the only French territory to vote against De Gaulle's constitution and thus to choose complete independence, he has been suddenly catapulted into the forefront of the African scene. Last week somnolent, picturesque Conakry was getting to know how it feels to be the capital of an independent nation. France, Britain and the U.S. were busy setting up embassies; there had been trade missions from East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia; and last week the first ambassador arrived-from Communist Bulgaria. When Touré decided...
...have our will, our arms and legs, and we know how to work," declared Toure grandly-but arms and legs were not enough. And so one day last November the President of Guinea flew off to pay a state visit to Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. The two men soon had both Paris and London gasping...
...another are Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev (Houghton's collection of works of Russian authors is the strongest outside of the Soviet Union, and, says William H. Bond, Curator of Manuscripts, "May be the best in the world for all we know...
Behind this report, of course, is the idea that responsible Americans of the future will have to make important decisions involved with the complexity of modern life, and since science plays such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however, there is a major difference between science and a field such as Comparative Literature--a difference of language. Whereas any intelligent person who has a certain facility with words can understand the weighty sentences of the expert in Comp. Lit., the same is not true in general of science. Indeed...