Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapidly developing country like Nigeria, we see some peculiar paradoxes. We saw one of these when the Action Group campaign helicopter landed on the road in front of our Mission compound here. The wind from the rotor almost tore the grass roof off a nearby house. It is probably the first time that "repair of grass roofs" might be listed as election expenses. The helicopter pilot mentioned that one disadvantage of the helicopter's use was the fact that it often attracted more attention than the campaign speech...
...only support for Nixon among the Harvard respondents came from Stanley F. Teele, Dean of the Business School. He saw the essential issue as living with Russia "without sacrificing any of our essential values...
...realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism Lichtenberg retained a wry skepticism quite uncharacteristic...
...gift of 100 pounds to Harvard in 1643, the largest the College had received up to that time, was directly solicited by John Weld, from Roxbury. Weld persuaded Ann Radcliffe, who never saw America, both to set up a trust fund, the income of which was to be used solely for scholarship purposes, and to name his son, a Junior in the College, first recipient of the award...
...story of an intellectual mamma's boy Communist up against a tough, cynical but gallant revolutionary was shot through with Marxist analysis. With such qualities Jean-Paul Sartre's Crime of Passion seemed an unlikely play for TV. But viewers in the New York area saw it last week, in a full-length and absorbing production, well acted by a cast that included Claude Dauphin and Betsy von Furstenberg...