Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked him into running for Boston's Common Council. Old Ward 17, an immigrant district which included City Hospital and the Mud Flats, had been devotedly tended by tight-fisted Pea-Jacket Maguire who had only recently been hoodwinked into giving up his patronage for the honorific and powerless post of Democratic City Commission Chairmen by John F. Dever, the Uncle of the late Governor. Dever's position was not yet secure; and if Curley could get enough publicity, his friends persuaded him, he might get elected...
...profound change occurred in the post-Sputnik era, said Davis. "Dr. Killian and his group of scientific advisers managed to defeat the Strauss-Teller position within the Administration, and this led to the present arms control conferences...
...course Vag could have sold the extra ticket, but he never quite had the nerve to post a notice on the bulletin board. The defeat of it all overwhelmed him--to have to admit to some eager sophomore that he hadn't gotten a date for the game. So Saturday approached and arrived and Vag set off for the game with a pair of fake binoculars filled with bourbon to fill the void left by a date...
...they seized Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib-"equaled in perversity only by the post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than a primordial Scandinavian cow licking stones...
...advantages of man's mastery of space, Huxley has this to say: "All our exuberant post-Sputnik talk is irrelevant and even nonsensical. So far as the masses of mankind are concerned, the coming time will not be the Space Age; it will be the Age of Over-population." In a parody of the old song, Huxley asks...