Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never far from the side of Bulganin and Khrushchev in Asia was a shadowy Third Man. He had a thin, sharp face with fine lines around pale grey-blue eyes, a firm mouth and straight nose, a high forehead, thinning brown hair and sandy eyebrows. He was broad and short, and it was noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was no ordinary...
Harvard is not being superior or looking down its nose at others when it defines its special role as giving the most challenging, stretching and enriching education it can to a limited number of academically highly able students. This is what we are peculiarly fitted to do, and it is important for the nation that it be done well, that the men in this group, who are going to be the future scholars, scientists, teachers, government officials, top professional men and managers, get the kind of education they need and we can give them. Our job is to give them...
These statements represent the culmination of a grad "Geneva spirit" just as much. Worse, in taking a poke at the Russians he has unnecessarily infuriated a nation whose friendship is crucial, thus making the Russian strategy doubly effective. It seems that Mr. Dulles has again cut off our national nose to spite our patriotic face. ual change in the policy of large labor groups. At the inception of the AFL, the organization steadfastly refused to take political action, relying mainly on building up the processes of collective bargaining. Founder Samuel Gompers warned the fledgling Federation that political action could prove...
Bender emphasized that the College, in the event that it cannot expand and still maintain its high standards, should concentrate on giving the best possible education to the students it does admit. "Harvard is not being superior or looking down its nose at others," he says, "when it defines its special role as giving the most challenging, stretching and enriching education it can to a limited number of highly able students...
...need more sleep than I do call insomnia was a help"), and even when sick ("I find that what I write while the annual virus is working in me is as good, or as bad, and as plentiful as what I write when I can breathe through my nose"). He spent his vacations inspecting battle sites and tracing the country's great expeditions. Eventually he came to know as much about the opening of the American West as any man alive. His The Year of Decision: 1846 and The Course of Empire reopened that West for thousands of readers...