Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, Author William (A Fable) Faulkner decided to sightsee among the well-known Brazilian tourist spots, ended up in the São Paulo snake farm with a full-grown snake coiled around his neck. Calm in the knowledge that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless South American species of coral snake...
...Fable, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner unveils a World War I passion play with a corporal as Christ, but veils his deeper meanings except to suggest that "man and his folly . . . will prevail" (TIME...
...part, Harvard has been able to escape the influence of McCarthyism. But to keep this street so named is to irritate a running sore on the elbow of the University. I think the governors of the University, who pay so much in taxes to the City of Cambridge, should prevail upon the Cambridge fathers to change the name of McCarthy Road to Welch Boulevard. Thus would an evil influence be eliminated, and a true son of Harvard be rewarded for his labours. B. T. Littfield...
While the Court, did not specifically rule out segregation in the University of Florida and Louisiana State University, it did ask the lower courts ruling on these two colleges, to reconsider their decisions "in the light of" last Monday's announcement and "conditions that now prevail...
...good fellowship and accommodation. Nor is it a quiet state of live-and-let-live equilibrium. It is a state of constant agitation and movement, of keeping the pressure on, of feinting to suggest menace where no real menace exists and masking menace just when it is about to prevail. It is a state of yielding an inch only when it is satisfied it will gain a mile...