Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witches' sabbath of the maiden aunts...
...have were the weapons of the rest of Luis Taruc's men (to be registered, not surrendered), nor the men themselves. They were standing by in the swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal...
MARY BERMAN Maiden, Mass...
...dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping about and jumping frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden of sixteen." Today, there will probably not be a girl under eighteen in Harvard Yard, and this, too, is progress. It is the sort of progress that can create confidence in the future of Harvard College and in the future--all the more unlimited because unnumbered--of the institution of Class...
Teacher Fisher, raised in Volens by a bachelor uncle and a maiden aunt, hopes to study for an M.A. at either Columbia or the University of Chicago. But he will come back to a country school ("That's where I want to be"). He doesn't worry much about his $1,650 salary: "I didn't enter teaching to get rich...