Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half an hour late, in strode imperious Colonel James Alphonse Kilian, former commandant of the depot. In barrel-organ tones he demanded to see the order convening the court. The president banged his gavel to silence the belligerent witness. Kilian called for a comfortable chair- "one with arms on it if I have to sit here...
...Vishinsky make an unprecedented advance toward world cooperation. Prosecutor Vishinsky was denouncing Britain, but he is too shrewd a man to ignore the application of his words to the U.S.S.R. Said he to UNO's Security Council: "I would ask whether the United Nations can be an effective organ if national sovereignty is not limited. The nations must sacrifice a part of their sovereignty if the United Nations is to be a real and effective organ...
...announcers kept it up: "bulletins" described cities disintegrating, ships disappearing at sea, the world splitting wide open. From the Paris boulevards, an announcer brought the sound of French thousands wailing, screaming, praying. From Notre Dame Cathedral came hymn singing, organ music...
During the war, the CRIMSON, shaped to fit the needs of students in uniform and a scattering of civilian undergraduates, prepetuated itself as the un-opinionated Service News. This wartime adaptation will have served for three years and six weeks as the news organ of Harvard when it reverts to the pre-war CRIMSON. The CRIMSON will publish three times per week at first and return to a full daily schedule by the fall term...
What Spain's people thought of this was hard to learn. Madrid's Ecclesia, new weekly organ of the influential Catholic Action, warned: "We believe that a good dose of prudence is worth-while in these matters; prudence not to deduce from the silence of the proletarian masses-forbidden to strike and restrained from means of uprising-unequivocal indications of their complete contentment." Ecclesia took Spain's leaders to task for failing to note ecclesiastical protests against injustices "for example, of absentee landlordism, a deep and endemic wrong in Andalusia, where few landlords ever know...