Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Lake Success, Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czech delegate to the U.N., told how the Russians were pressuring his country. All Czech envoys, "including the Ambassador to Washington," must make daily reports to the Soviet embassies, he declared, and every Czech ambassador must be "screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
...Arabs did the same. On the deadline, Arabs asked for another day and a half to discuss the truce order among themselves. But the brief hope for immediate peace flickered out when Arab spokesmen added a condition which the Jews would not accept: Israel's government must cease to function before the Arabs would consider a truce...
...express what many are afraid to admit to themselves in the deepest cell of their hearts, what in the dust of ruins we still do not recognize: that every single one of us was very well able to choose for himself between right or wrong, justice or chaos. We must withstand the tempters-in whatever gilded cups they may be serving the red wine of seduction-when they cry from the right or from the left: 'Put your ballot in our box and your sins will be forgiven.' Let us at this moment and in this place give...
Jimmy's father, a Boston Irishman, wanted his son to become a plumber. ("I can still fix a toilet," says Jimmy.) Instead, he got what he thought was a wonderful job as office boy at the Boston Opera House: "There must have been 50 pianos!" With 50 pianos to tinkle on, he began making up his own tunes...
...Classics. In the last 100 years, the 15,000 fatherless boys who have gone through the "Hum" (campus corruption for home) have turned out to be everything from mechanics to insurance-company presidents. Girard has a "double curriculum." Every "newbie" (new boy) must try ten different trades, and then pick his favorite. Girard also teaches the standard grammar and high-school subjects, except for Latin and Greek, which Stephen Girard considered a waste of time...