Word: mors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some neutral Swedes were made a little nervous by the award. "Even if Caesar happens to sing," said the Socialist government's newspaper, the Stockholm Mor-gon-Tidningen, "he can never become an Orpheus . . . The academy move paves the way for the statesman, warrior, philosopher and poet, Mao Tse-tung in Peking, to receive the next year's prize." The Liberal Aftonbladet, however, thought the award might "well have been made much earlier." The Communist Ny Dag sneered: "This is a clear case of sidetracking Eisenhower . . . They say he, too, has written a book." But Sir Winston...
...hero, Mico Mor, is a broth of a fisherman's boy in County Galway - no champ for brains but strong on earthy virtue. In one of his first scenes, young Mico rashly throws a tin cup at a flock of geese; they charge down the beach and drive him near to drowning in the sea. But like the youngest prince in the old stories, Mico comes through where many a more calculating fellow fails...
...last week and raced the nine miles from a Denver bank to his 280-acre ranch outside town. He hustled into the kitchen of his one-story ranch house, and sat down to lunch "Well Mom," said Graves to his pretty red-haired wife, "here we are with mor'n half a million in the bank, and look what we're eatin'." In the bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made out to an individual cattleman, for his herd of more than...
...local laws, that their training courses in teaching theory and method are virtually essential to the eligibility of any candidate for a job in your schools." But the super-pros do not stop there. To gain promotions, a teacher must keep coming back summer after summer to take mor courses...