Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn by buying 60 British Viscount turboprops three years ago, agreed to pay $67.5 million within five years of delivery plus interest to London bankers who financed the deal. As of 1956, Capital managed to pay $12.4 million of the debt, and badly strained itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit of $1,257,000 last year, another $1,248,861 deficit for the first nine months...
...claimed that the Civil Rights Act was "rammed through" Congress by legislators interested in swaying the Negro vote in Northern urban-industrial states. Thurmond delayed the process last summer by filibustering before the Senate for 24 hours...
...essence of espresso is speed," explained Morris Yarrow, proprietor of the new Cafe Mozart, as he brought out two cups. "The process is the reverse of tea making, where you let the tea infuse slowly into the water." At the Plympton Street cafe, abstract paintings have replaced the chalk drawings of the old Capriccio, while uniform black tables and unpainted chairs contribute a slight austerity to Yarrow's coffee house...
Rufus is at an age when he can feel this duplicity of love and hate in the concrete, sensual way of children--and poets--without forgetting its reality through the over self-consciousness of adult introspection. The development into this state is what marks the process of his growing up. Agee traces this growth through the boy's encounter with new words. At first "concussion" is an interesting sound, harsh and hard. Then he learns it is connected with a blow, just as it sounds, and that it is what killed his father. "Chariot," in "Swing low sweet chariot...
...having freshmen in the Houses, the inadvisability of being exposed to upperclassmen, is one of the strongest arguments for having freshmen in the Houses. Being surrounded by people in "the same boat" is not necessarily a good thing; this experience often only intensifies the fear of the academic process that bedevils many freshmen. Many freshmen take the academic requirements of Harvard far too seriously, usually to their academic and personal detriment...