Word: objection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humphrey. I object! [Laughter...
...views history as a multitude of ever-turning cultural constellations, the rise and fall of Greco-Roman civilization is merely an episode lasting roughly from 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Toynbee traces the course of Hellenism's bright star lucidly, a little offhandedly, treating it largely as an object lesson for the present. Hellenism's central characteristic was the worship of man-exemplified by the ludicrously human crew of Olympian divinities and, later, by a more sophisticated secular humanism. This man worship, which has thrilled so many historians of Greece, chills Toynbee (an Anglican with...
Pennsylvania coach Joe Burke called the Crimson crew "better than Yale the week before." An important object of Saturday's race is to choose seedings for next week's Eastern Sprints. On the basis of its decisive victory, the Crimson should be first...
...search disappointed many Norwegians, who felt that the U.S. had not given it a proper try. "I don't understand it," said a Norwegian helicopter pilot. "We could have continued the search for days. I told the Americans that it is naturally difficult to find an object like that, but that I was not pessimistic." Around Longyearbyen, many miners refused to give up. Their optimism was kept alive partly by a $500 reward offered by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., one of the builders of the Discoverer II, partly by the fervent hope that they could beat Russian search parties...
Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder gets as many laughs as possible out of the gimmick of female impersonation, largely because the impersonators are Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, and the object of their attentions a wickedly skilled comedienne: Marilyn Monroe...