Word: path
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only does the country need patriotic support, but she needs that support which can plan for the future, can discipline and prepare itself for the discipline and service to come . . . The truest patriotism is after all that which lays aside self-gratification in any form and seeks intelligently the path of greatest usefulness." (April...
...fare, but once a girl child, who might have been her dinner, foiled her with bread. Fleeing from Baba-Yaga, this miraculous child strewed the forest with crumbs, each of which sprouted a tree, and the trees grew so tall and thick and fast in Baba-Yaga's path that the child outran the old witch's seven-league mortar to safety...
...advised me to call him around the middle of December if I wanted help with the final exam, since he would be "pretty busy in January." To find out just how busy he was during reading period, and thus get some idea how many undergraduates were taking the primrose path to a Harvard degree, I waited till last week to call...
Many political changes had taken place in the country during the last years, continued the voice, rendering the monarchy little more than an obstruction in the path of progress. "Consequently," it concluded, "and fully conscious of the importance of the action which we are about to take . . . we abdicate the throne. . . . We give the Rumanian people full freedom to elect its own new form of government...
...year on U.S. records, Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian (TIME, Nov. 10) got in the top 15 with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...