Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Association of Secondary-School Principals' directive [urging members to "question the continuation of subscriptions to TIME and LIFE-TIME, April 21] can in no way be construed as censorship. In educational circles, canceling a subscription is what is known as a critical and dynamic re-evaluation of our selective skills...
Pack of Lies. The politicians who answered the royal summons last week head parties so torn by splinter factions that none is strong enough to lead. Except for the King, the best known man in Nepal is wily, mustachioed K. I. Singh, who for 110 tempestuous days last year ruled as Prime Minister, and is strongly suspected of being under the thumb of Red China, where he once took refuge for three years. Last week, after abruptly refusing to attend the King's parley, Singh let loose with an anti-U.S., anti-British diatribe. Three months in office...
...house is surrounded by many shrubs and trees, which may be valuable, since Eliot was known to be fond of visiting the arboretum...
...Perhaps Bond's blatant heterosexuality is a subconscious protest against the current fashion for sexual confusion." Too much snobbery? "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ... I myself abhor Wine-and-Foodmanship. My own favorite food is scrambled eggs." Yet, though he has never been known to kick anyone in the groin, and fancies his own Ford Thunderbird over a Bentley, Author Fleming strikes his friends as "awfully like Bond really, appearance, clothes, Floris bath essence...
Lowell spoke to the Class Day audience about his dead cocker spaniel, Phantom. "He was a good old dog," Lowell said, speaking softly, almost to himself. "He was better known around here than I was.... I guess he loved Harvard as much as I did, and he was about as useful...