Word: propounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propound," says Shaw to Walkley, "a certain social substance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...
President Eisenhower popped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev one day last week to propound a new practical approach to getting something done about disarmament. The new idea: a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. technical study on how to conduct an inspection of any suspension of nuclear tests or suspension of nuclear war production in case some agreement might be reached at a parley at the summit...
...crisis of Parliaments." Said one member: "We shall know by this if Parliaments live or die ... Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Up stood Coke, 76 and full of "sturdy confidence," and said: "The estate is inclining to a consumption, yet not incurable. For this disease I-will propound remedies...
...event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser.) And in London last week nobody was more surprised than New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Don Cook when the Foreign Office's august Permanent Undersecretary, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, whisked him aside during a party to propound that unless the U.S. went along with the British on Suez, the Eden government would fall, and there would have to be elections in January; the implication was that anti-Americans of the right or left would pick up more power...
Think on the glory of martyrdom, ye who can propound the doctrine! Think of the glory of saving lost western sheep, of schussing down the divine and grand Colorado slopes in search of the unfound, of exaltation in the sublime expanses of Nature! Think also on the glory of the greater numbers of true preachers which the wonderful spaces of the West will allow us! Ah, the glory...