Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
...save the first Chinese Red army. By 1930 it had grown to 60,000 men. Then Chiang, advised by a German, General Alexander von Falken-hausen, closed in with overwhelming numbers. Five years of dark and bloody Nationalist "annihilation" campaigns against the Reds finally drove Mao's remnant into the retreat now famous as the Long March, an epic ordeal of one year and 6,000 miles. Less than 20,000 Red army survivors reached their chosen base around Yenan, in remote northwest China, as near as practical to Stalin's Russia...
Roger L. Butler '51, head cheerleader, bemoaned the situation by saying, "One of the best things of living at Harvard is the elimination of that menial task of bed-making. The one last remnant of gracious living is in serious proximity to death...
With Pants Pantalconi and Ben Florin still bothered by leg injuries, right half back Bob Harding is the only healthy remnant of last week's regular defensive lineup...
...Expecting trouble during the night, I loaded my shotgun with small shot. But nothing happened. Only the hyenas roared and the jackals barked hoarsely over the remnant of the festive meal...