Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minus Mathematics. William Stuart Symington III (he trimmed the name to W. Stuart Symington as a businessman, dropped the W. when he got into politics) was an "extravagantly beautiful" child, recalls his doting sister Louise. Absorbing the household's bookish atmosphere-adorning the mantle was a Latin motto that translates as "Life without literature is death"-little Stu read so avidly that the family called him "the professor." As his Christmas present when he was ten, he asked for and got a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find any mistakes, the time will have come for us to leave." In the sprawling headquarters of the International Cooperation Administration in downtown Port-au-Prince, ICA Director for Latin America Rollin Atwood wound up a rigid, five-day inspection and said: "From a year ago, Haiti has made tremendous progress...
...Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, it was pretty much the same old story: in nearly 30 years as a correspondent covering the political turmoil of Latin America, he had been mauled by Peronista hoodlums in Argentina, threatened by Panamanians, and beaten by Communist thugs in Guatemala. Last week he seemed about to be torn to bits by one of Fidel Castro's Havana mobs...
...School offers three basic fields--Government and Economic Life, Government of a Democracy, and International Affairs,--as well as a number of more specific topics such as The Near East, the Far East, or Latin America in the Modern World. If a student chooses to work, for example, in Government of a Democracy, he may select his courses from a list which includes Public Finance (Economics), English Constitutional History (History), Public Opinion (Politics), and Urban Sociology...
...instead of a spittoon, he would spit on the floor "because you can't miss it"), Edison had acid-stained hands, an explosive vocabulary and a pioneer's instinct for practical jokes. He spouted the slogans of agrarian radicals, railed at U.S. colleges for stuffing students with "Latin, Philosophy and all that ninny stuff," and fiercely defended his agnostic opinions...