Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been hard for the old girl even to get her name in the cramped newspapers. But in socialist Britain, royalty's duty is the same as it has been: to set an example of good manners to every class. It is Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance, her every girlish gesture. Shopgirls and Mayfair matrons read the story...
...wrote of her reactions to FDR's first election as President, "this meant the end of any personal life for me." She blames her children's early unsuccessful marriages on the fact that in all its peregrinations the family was "not really rooted in any particular home." Surprisingly enough, Mrs. Roosevelt felt rootless herself...
...Institute is to train a limited number of qualified students on a graduate level in Middle east Studies with particular emphasis on the political, social, and economic aspects of the modern and contemporary periods...
...discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest in a literary life, Goethe was no more upset than he had been by the strange ways of mistress Christiane. "In the last analysis," he said, "all sane and sensible things coincide...
...young faculty members and the graduate students interviewed all stated that no one had objections to the FBI's loyalty checks on men who had applied for government jobs. These checks are made in the open by the known FBI agents. Usually several of the higher members of the particular department are interviewed...