Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England in 1857, and used by at least three generations of English children. But that it did not live up to its title is confirmed by Winston Churchill, who refers feelingly in his memoirs [A Roving Commission] to his early bouts with this primer. The pre-primer you mention as now being in use in Detroit schools sounds remarkably like our old primer, which also used simple drawings and rhymes. Cat, fat, bat, says the Detroit primer. Pat a fat cat, said Reading Without Tears. Winston Churchill evidently finally learned to read, but I don't suppose his parents...
...Soviet embassy the Russians asked Ezra Benson and just about anyone else who wanted to come to a glossy farewell reception: "Come, of course. And bring your wife. Just mention your name at the door." For the first time, the silken-draped Russian embassy was opened to TV cameras, and beneath the floodlights Matskevich stood sweating happily among 400 guests. Amid the clatter of good will could be heard snatches of U.S.-Russian conversation: "What is the impression after Geneva . . .?" "I was in the infantry myself . . ." "Maybe music can be the language to draw us closer together...
...mass of rules and regulations and their fumbling procedures, that could not have been done by an individual bureaucrat with a modicum of common sense and the simple right to hire and fire in the interests of national security. And a great deal of time and money, not to mention human agony and governmental dignity, could have been saved...
...mention the physiological correlates of emotion, you're being false to the given facts . . . What we need is another set of words. Words that can express the natural togetherness of things. Muco-spiritual, for example, or dermatocharity . . . Why not viscerosophy...
...music followed the text with the eagerness of a revenue officer: now glorious in a joyous sunburst at the words "United States," now pinched at the mention of old age, now prattling giddily about estimated taxes and exemptions. A quintet reached heights of eloquence as it dwelt antiphonally on the words: "You can deduct your mother-in-law," only to be interrupted by the full chorus in a biting "But!", which led into more fine print, misterioso...