Word: recollect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's labor bill. Reason: Arizona's open-shop advocate, Barry Goldwater, because of his seniority on the Labor Committee, will be the G.O.P.'s ranking Senate spokesman. Moderate Republicans fear that their program will get an automatic setback under Goldwater's wing; most recollect powerfully his fondness for the right-to-work laws that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising stand during the labor bill debates, liberal Republicans...
...pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which had been snipped from a Spanish sefiorita. But by far the most intriguing was one packet holding a single fair ringlet, with the bemused memo in Byron's faded scrawl: "Whose this was I don't recollect...
Thanks are owed to the professors--and especially graders--who took the trouble to recollect. Any letters, to start a new compilation of exam blooopers, will be appreciated...
...night is "like a blind puppy lapping its milk." The Caucasus is like "crumpled bedding." The dark night of the soul is "blacker than monks, more stifling than clergy." The evening is empty "like an interrupted story." What Pasternak has tried to do in his poetry is not to recollect emotion in tranquillity, but to arrest emotion like a motion picture stopped with all the characters in mid-action...
...Lord Byron habitually"). He enjoyed going to pubs, or, as one enemy described it:"[He] not infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving a thigh...