Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...
High executives said last night that Dr. Huey obviously needed to renew his contact with the mysterious Eat. He will return to his mountain monastery in the trackless wastes of Inner Mongolia for further inculcation with the occult secrets of prognostication...
...Editorialized New York's tabloid Daily News last week: "Whether Dr. Howell did it or whether Nature deserves the credit, the fact remains that it happened . Let's by all means renew [Howell's contract...
Yugoslavia's Bebler, ignoring the fact that his own country might be next on the Kremlin's list of victories, countered Austin in high, musical French. Bebler offered a weaseled resolution that the Council merely: 1) renew its call for an end of hostilities, 2) institute a "procedure of mediation," and 3) invite North Korea to send U.N. a spokesman to tell its side of the story...
...some Americans boomed him for the Presidency, and in that same spring a group of Harvard veterans organized an anti-MacArthur league which gained considerable nation-wide support. Now MacArthur, still in Japan to the gratitude of some and to the despair of others, has done something that should renew the controversy. Last week the general ordered 24 top Japanese Communists to keep their mouths shut or else...