Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career as an infantry officer, Major Tim Sheldon had poured "a gallon of living into a pint pot of time." Battle-beaten at 24, he felt like an old man. What Tim Sheldon was really looking forward to, when his North Africa sector quieted down one day, was two, maybe three successive nights of sleep. But Division HQ wanted to know whether the Germans had pulled out of White Farm. There was only one way to find out. Somebody had to cross no man's land and look...
Purveyors of stereotypes describe twenty-fifth reunions as the time when old pots catch glimpses of the new look. For classmates of 1928 who have been out of contact with the University since graduation, the new look is evident; Harvard is chock-full of new buildings, new courses, new ideas about education to keep pace with the times. Whether the "old pot" label is as apt this year as before is a moot question--especially since the Corporation has selected a new President from the Class of '28: a man young in both the freshness of his ideas and vigor...
...actual Stalag and its dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks 4?) to out & out slapstick (P.W.s making schnapps out of potato peelings and string, washing socks in a pot of watery soup, lining up at a homemade telescope to gawk at Russian women prisoners taking delousing showers...
...object," says Vinoba Bhave, "is to transform the whole of society. Fire merely burns; it does not worry whether anyone puts a pot on it, fills it with water and puts rice in it to make a meal. Fire burns and does its duty. It is for others to do theirs...
Wayne Morse is about the biggest egotistical glob of worthlessness in the Senate's pot today, for my money...