Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with no say-so left to the bride herself. A recent poll of eligible bachelors reveals that most of them rate "obedience" high in a prospective wife's virtues, and greybeards still happily recall the days when every Japanese bride was given a sword on her wedding to remind her that death was preferable to desertion. In the rural districts, where from time immemorial wives have been the best beasts of burden, today's bride is still, as one Welfare Ministry official put it last week, little more than "a cow without horns...
...memory of his face, his voice, his wit that seemed to gather slowly like a storm and flash with its lightning, these are still strongly with us, and there is none among us that doesn't have a sentence or phrase or episode etched on his cortex to remind him of what manner of man Sherwood was. No stranger could ever encounter Bob without becoming aware that he was in the presence of a formidable brain and personality. No friend of Bob's ever found him lacking in warmth, sympathy or time when there were troubles...
Wind-chilled East Coast horseplayers hardly needed the Morning Telegraph's solicitous ad to remind them it was time to head south. But what good was the knowledge that the horseplayers' paper would be available at Jake's News Stand, 116 Julia Street, Jacksonville, if all a man had was a pocketful of losing tickets? Raising a stake was getting to be a tough proposition. Too many short-priced horses were galloping home; too many potential long shots were going to the post at low odds just because a jockey named Willie Hartack was perched...
...American Historical Association set the Division in its proper perspective when it passed a resolution in 1951 to "remind the appropriate federal officials...that in this time of crisis maximum official publication of documents on foreign relations is essential to public understanding, without which United States foreign policy will be subject to ill-advised pressures...
...might have wondered at the implications for Nationalist China's future had so able, senior and "Western-minded" a leader been tossed overboard. Much cheered by the verdict, General Sun called last week on Vice President Chen Cheng, the commission chairman, to offer his thanks and to remind the Vice President that he is an engineer (Purdue '23) as well as a military man (V.M.I. '27). Sun's likely next assignment: Formosa's new Shihmen dam project, of which Chen Cheng is also chairman...