Word: power
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster House underwent a 15-minute unexplained blackout when light power failed, an impromptu hand paraded in Lowell House courtyard, and outside shrinking was noticeable on Mt. Auburn Street...
...with a squad three deep in every position. So much material do the visitors boast, in fact, that for home games Coach Lefty James can field three complete offensive and defensive platoons, all of them good. Even an injury list as extensive as Harvard's has left Cornell's power virtually unimpaired...
...American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
There were similar incidents of intense majority "pressure tactics" against the minority. One meeting was called in which the Steering Committee demanded the power to investigate "rumor-mongers." Warshaw notes that rumors were circulating throughout Budapest when the Americans arrived; rumors of secret police raids, of Russian troop movements, of the torture of political prisoners of widespread poverty in Hungary. The meeting was called by the chairman of the Steering Committee to discuss the fact that "these rumors are dangerous to the delegation...
According to the speaker, the girl had admitted "that her purpose in coming to the festival had not been to work for peace but to see 'what Hungary was like,' and to study art." In view of this incident, the Steering Committee asked the power to investigate similar people whose purposes were "disruptive" in closed hearings, and to recommend their expulsion...