Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still believe that Freshman Advisers, like Departmental tutors, are in a unique position to remind students, on the part of the Faculty, that there is more to a Harvard education than so many hour examinations. But consideration for the many Freshmen I have not treated and shall not treat in the Lucullan manner your article implied requires me to explain publicity that, in my opinion, "lubrication" (as you put it) is not the only alternative to lucubration. Harlan P. Hanson, Director, Program of Advanced Standing
...more significant, too, there is the wail of Jim Eastland to his Deep South colleagues that, unless integration in the border states is stopped, it will inevitably spread to his center of Anglo-Saxon purity. But this period, with its trials, disappointments, and its bitterness, has also served to remind people of what Southern liberals have often said--in a sometimes weak and strained voice: that the issue must be handled with a delicacy almost new to American social and political progress...
...would remind that man," he went on, "of the fact that attempts have been made in the past to speak to us in those terms. After the October Revolution in our country there was a landing by the British, by the Americans, by the French at Odessa and by the Japanese at Vladivostok, but then the Russian people made an effort and cleared them...
Eden himself hankered for a chance to practice his favorite form of democracy, frank man-to-man chats with one's adversaries, free from publicity and protocol. He wanted to remind K. & B. that Middle East oil is now Britain's lifeline, and a war there could not be localized-because 'Britain would enter "it. "He wanted'-to as sure them that the Western alliance can not be splintered, and to suggest that the true test of Soviet eagerness for coexistence would be its willingness to abandon subversion abroad. He had filled much...
...exiled by the French to remote Madagascar, was being courted like a king. At Rabat airport last week, as he stepped aboard an Iberia Super-Constellation for a visit to Spain, a band played the Marseillaise, and French High Commissioner Andre Louis Dubois was at his side to remind him that Morocco owed its new "independence within interdependence" to France. Hours later in Madrid, Dictator Franco and a phalanx of bemedaled Falangists roared an ovation to show that they also had something to give the Sultan...