Word: miasmic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist...
...after day, he deals calmly and skillfully with Florida politics, which carries into the atomic age the miasmic mist and the alligator snap of the deepest Florida swamp. The job keeps him busy. The other day, his 13-year-old daughter Mary Call asked him, "What's a lieutenant governor?" (the office does not exist...
...reached at last for their portfolios on Germany and Austria. But Molotov smiled a polite smile. "I crave your indulgence. It so happens I have with me ... another resolution I wish to table." He laid it before the others. If words could mildew, it would have been a deep, miasmic green, for it was the old, empty Soviet proposal for a world-disarmament conference...
...Communist influences . . . which, from all indications, just do not exist in the city." Schoolteachers have uncomplainingly taken non-Communist oaths; no Houstonians have taken refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee; Houston has neither Red-tinged bookshops nor locally published pink magazines. Nevertheless, said the Post, a "miasmic fear of Communism . . . has permeated Houston." In whispering campaigns, patriotic clergymen, educators and schoolteachers have been denounced as Reds, and meeting halls have been closed to visiting speakers on the ground that they were too "controversial...