Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first principles that any military man must remember in conducting this struggle," replied Ike, "is that you must put your eye on the main danger. The main danger today is imperialist Communism, or Communist imperialism. The main danger is not from people who have embraced Communism and who are not part of the imperialist group. And it is not from a local man who is exercising power, maybe even in dictatorial fashion, at this moment. Now, I do not mean to say that we should ever forsake our ideals . . . But when it comes to the great struggle in which...
...sectarian morning services are held each morning at 8:40 in Appleton Chapel of Memorial Church. Vesper services under visiting and local ministers are held each Sunday evening at 8 p.m. in the main chapel...
...Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round so completely that when Count Isaac de Camondo willed...
...short-grass country we only read the books that have been banned in Boston, so our folks can either take Hemingway or leave him alone. In this case, they left him alone, and we got gored worse than the bullfighter. Personally, we prefer a picture to carry just one main story-something to match our third-grade mentality."-P.R., Ness City, Kans...
...understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin, where James Joyce's hero, mindful of Lady Hamilton, referred to him as "the onehandled adulterer...