Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after the IUS was formed, 1947, delegates from student governments met at Madison, Wisconsin to draft the constitution of the USNSA. The student organization that was to emerge was new in name and structure, but in spirit a descendent of the student organization of the thirties, the National Student Federation of America. The President of NSFA in 1932 had been a young man named Edward R. Murrow; its last congress in 1940 had been organized by Orville Freeman, now Governor of Minnesota...
...such a great stylist--those wonderful phrases which people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
Nearly everyone knows the story. The Kentuckians from the little backwoods college met the mighty varsity on its home ground and outplayed it, 6 to 0. For Harvard, it was the first loss in five years of football greatness...
Housing for University medical students met opposition yesterday when a Roxbury resident sought an order from Suffolk Superior Court to prevent a $2 million re-development in his neighborhood...
Thus de Gaulle's promising formula is still little more than a change de language, as L'Express put it a month ago. The parliamentary vote of confidence last week reflected more expediency than conviction; the Deputies knew that the President could and would dissolve the Chamber if he met defeat. The so-called "Gaullists," right up to Premier Michel Debre, generally prefer continued strong prosecution of the war and eventual "integration...