Word: maze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a burning sun last week, Oregon's shirtsleeved voters stood in long, slow-moving queues, waited hours for the chance to puzzle through a bewildering maze of primary ballots. Nearly 60% of the registered voters decided it was worth the effort-and in terms of nationally interesting results, it was. Oregon cleared the way for one of this year's roughest Senate election brawls, gave a significant lift to one Democratic presidential candidate, slammed down hard on another, handed a meaningful vote of confidence to Dwight Eisenhower and-for a surprise in the election-to Vice President...
...workbench in the Psychology Department's machine shop in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is better described as a device than as a machine. It consists of a small wooden box with several small windows in the top, and a lever in front. Inside, there is maze of pulleys, levers, and chains and an aluminum disk about the size of a phonograph turn-table. It's really very simple, however...
...young artist should "avert the gaze from self...and penetrate the maze" lest self-pity destroy his creativity. Following his own credo, John L. Sweeney, as critic, teacher, and Curator of Lamont's Poetry Room, has, for the last ten years, been a benevolent father for Harvard's young poets...
...Filibuster. From a conference room deep in the maze of the Palais Bourbon's corridors, Demagogue Pierre Poujade (who is not a Deputy) directed the battle, rapping out orders, getting reports relayed from his wife in the public galleries, barking into the telephone. To a suggestion for a mass walkout, he snorted: "What then? You want to return next day like a beaten dog with your tail between your legs?" Poujade's orders to Le Pen, his unofficial floor manager: filibuster...
...that Governor Harriman drastically underestimated state revenue for 1955, and loaded the taxpayers with an 11% increase in state income taxes to cover a budget based on his error. But there was remarkably little public reaction. One reason: a point about a state budget often gets lost in a maze of statistics, analyses and charts. Last week, however, Oswald D. (for David) Heck, speaker of the New York state assembly, found a way to make the case in a word...