Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer-rug vote by a leader of modern Turkey: "If there are no courses on religion in our schools," he said, "citizens who want their children to learn religion are deprived ... It would be suitable to have courses on religion in our secondary schools...
Reading this novel about circus life is a little like lifting a splendid rug and finding that unspeakable things have been swept under it. In this case the sweepings are human beings. Author Hoagland, a young Harvardman now serving in the Army, has written a first novel that falls far short of real consequence, but is alive with very real people and very real animals. It makes the circus world itself as startling and brutal as the sudden roar of a lion at five yards...
Long before daylight next morning, the Sultan drove to the holy city of Fez to kneel toward the rising sun, and to pray on a rug beside the grave of his mother, who had died of grief for her son ten days after his removal from the throne...
...course, only the beginning. Evelyn "forgave him," and ran happily down the primrose path with her "Stanny," who pushed his "Kittens" on a red velvet swing in the "play" room, hung her in costly deshabille, and had the little beauty snapped while lying odaliciously on a polar-bear rug. "He was a brilliant, kind and fascinating man," Evelyn said later. "He showed me a new world of art and beauty...
...N.A.A.C.P. Out of Howard he hopefully hung out a shingle in Baltimore (his mother took the rug off her living-room floor to put in his office). Nothing happened. It was 1933, and hardly anybody was worth suing. Marshall's practice lost him $1,000 the first year. The next year he did better, building up a well-to-do clientele and a reputation, but he was increasingly involved in low-fee hard-work cases on civil rights. In a Maryland court, he won separate-but-equal status for a client. Donald Murray at the University of Maryland School...