Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that an "old-fashioned anticlerical feeling" still exists in some quarters. This feeling Ford deemed replete with "tremors of remembered suspicion and continuing distaste on the part of the non-religious person for what he takes as a potential intrusion by organized religion...
Bets were taken from all over the University, by phone or in person, and odds posted on the wall. Once the cardboard gates were opened, the hungry mice ran for their prize, while hungry betters cheered for their chosen redent...
...years before he may be admitted as a guest. Of course such long-term graduates and friends from other colleges are acceptable, but there seems to be an unwritten and unmentioned rule that guests are brought in only seldom and that they should be "the better kind of person." It is reported, perhaps apocryphally, that one of the greatest rows in Porcellian Club history was caused when General Eisenhower was brought into the club for the second time, a blatant violation of a P.C. rule that limits each guest to one visit...
...year, time enough to catch a breath between one night's adventure and the next. The reader of the 890-page U.S. translation must pace himself, and should be warned that the author is one up on him from the beginning. Novelist "Sergeanne" Colon is not one person but two-an apparently indefatigable French man-and-wife team (Serge and Anne) who claim to have primed themselves with 300 volumes of history before painting their cyclorama. Their scholarship is not intrusive...
Gibb stated that the Committee's finding would "be published as a variety of reports in different fields of study." "No one person can discuss these various fields at this early stage, but we hope that all the findings will be pooled together in a final definitive report," he commented...