Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thump of five military bands, the army that had fought two wars and waged many a border skirmish wound its way back without incident to the Mediterranean plain. In a ringing, patriarchal oration, B-G reviewed its triumphs: "The state arose not through the decision of the U.N. but through the determined will of the Jewish people and the heroism of its precious sons and daughters...
...university (TIME, April 14), the most incendiary charge was that the Rev. George Arthur Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers, refused in 1955 to permit a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Harvard's Memorial Church. On another occasion, Dr. Buttrick made his position plain: "It is intellectually dishonest for Jewish and Christian marriages to be conducted under the same roof...
...issue brought almost everybody out swinging-Christians, Jews and unbelievers, graduates, undergraduates, faculty members and plain kibitzers. "The only interpretation," snapped Jerome Davis Greene, '96, longtime Harvard overseer, in a letter to the Harvard Crimson, "is that in spite of generous gifts from Jews toward the erection of the Church, and in spite of the sacrifice of Jewish lives of which it was a memorial,* the gifts were somehow impressed with a trust that forbade any contamination of the premises that might compromise the claims of Protestant Christianity to a monopoly of ultimate truth." Wrote Psychology Professor Jerome Seymour...
...Egypt, Syria, India, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Yugoslavia, the total Soviet program during the last 2½ years has been double the free world's. The U.S. grants aid only when it considers a project economically sound; Russia picks projects largely for propaganda value, makes sure that they are plain for all to see, e.g., a soccer stadium in Burma, a road-paving job in Kabul...
Although the varsity scored a strong win over Princeton last weekend, the plain fact is that Cornell has too much depth, although this meet figures to be closer that the Heptagonals...