Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maurice Mandelbaum has accepted a post as lecturer in philosophy for next year. He comes here from Dart-mouth, where he has been teaching since...
Last night, at the annual post-season banquet, Woolston copped the team's two highest honors. He received the vote as most valuable player, and was also picked to captain next year's team. At the same time, Griff McClellan was honored as the most improved player...
...Times 'pooh-poohed Telles' slate as the "P for Pooley ticket". Pooley's Herald-Post attacked Mayor Rogers' record with Page One "photographic editorials" showing potholed pavements and exposed water lines. In their eagerness to clear or smear the city administration, the papers even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such...
...helping to bridge the gap between East and West are such carefully selected collections as that recently acquired by Philadelphia's Museum of Art (opposite). Containing 49 carved stone sculptures and temple fragments ranging from a 2nd-to-1st century B.C. sandstone relief on a post of a temple railing to a four-faced Siva-Linga that once topped the central column of a Hindu shrine, the collection covers more than 15 centuries, together makes up what museum officials unhesitatingly call "the most important group of Indian stone sculptures to be seen outside of India itself...
Humbert's would-be child bride is stolen from him by a playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...