Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching." So, in his parish bulletin, writes the Rev. Horace Willson, Anglican rector of St. Mary's Church of Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. "It is only reasonable to expect a child twelve months of age to be frightened and resist the priest's attempts to pour water over its head. Some of the recent administrations could be likened to an all-in wrestling match, with the priest applying all the holds possible. The dignity of the service is shattered the moment the fighting and screaming begins...
...with Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. Increasingly, France blames Bourguiba and his open support of Algeria's F.L.N. for its inability to crush the rebellion. The French have tried to seal off the 500-mile Tunisian border with heavy patrols and an electric fence. But Algerian recruits pour across it for intensive schooling in tactics at Tunisian-based training centers; trained men and equipment pour back to go into action in eastern Algeria...
...pour a little soothing oil on American heartburn over the failure of your Sputnik? Look around the free world and take stock of what your first Sputnik-called by some Marshall Aid-did for mankind, and take heart. A nation capable of such deeds can laugh off its first failures...
...Opera show. Its audience has been reckoned to be as high as 25% of all TV homes (40 million), with another 50% picking it up "occasionally." If the show veers from its old-fashioned format of 48-piece orchestra and opera singer in a standard, semiclassical repertory, angry letters pour in. Three-and-a-half years ago, when viewers and listeners* heard that after more than 25 years NBC would have to evict Voice to allow for the modern, ratings-shaped concept of mass over class, Firestone fans became as loud as they had been loyal. Without missing a note...
...raised in the Ukraine. Her re-creation of childhood is movingly written and preserves the old Russia-with its endless talk, fumbling aspirations and comfortable inefficiency-like a giant in amber. The final chapter tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler hat and handed it to mother. He folded his arms, turned to Grabovsky and said...