Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...
...Queens. On the surface the 70-acre, pine-and-palm-dotted campus, overlooking the Mediterranean, seems as placidly calm as a New England college. Sturdy, ivy-covered buildings, bearing the names of the university's pioneers and benefactors-Dodge, Post, Jesup, West-are flanked by the gleaming modern new engineering building and library. Though the university is largely supported by U.S. oil-company donations and grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, plus $1,000,000 a year from the U.S. Government for scholarships, it is so scrupulous of its impartiality that it gives only one course in American...
...Into whose "New York Post-Dispatch" office each day came "more than thirty letters, all of them alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife...
Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, has resigned his post as Master of Leverett House, it was learned yesterday...
King's Watchdog. Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...