Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world must find a way to prevent war from ever occurring if it is to avoid total destruction on the scale which I saw at Nagasaki," insisted Dr. Herbert W. Horne '37, in a speech last night before the World Federalists...
Only five Yardlings saw real action in the win, but each reached double figures in the scoring column. The season's high scorer for the team, 6 ft., 4 in., Gary Borchard, was the game's individual leader, if one can be singled out. Borchard put the team ahead 5 to 0 early in the game before the Yale yearlings could get started. Thanks to Borchard's 17 points in the first half, the Yardlings were ahead 49 to 39 at intermission...
Perhaps the West Bengali government was surprised--even disappointed--when they first viewed the movie. They saw not a fast-moving, glossy travelogue, but a naturalistic essay, viewing life as a lament of the path. Pather Panchali focuses on a rural Brahman family whose house is falling down. The gate is off its hinges, the yard full of rubbish, and the shutters loose...
...young man used to ride the New York subways with a pencil in his pocket and a chip on his shoulder. Sometimes, when he saw the placards for a cosmetic lotion urging straphangers to preserve the soft white beauty of their hands, he would take out his pencil and scrawl derisive comments: "How about Negro hands?" or "What if you're Chinese?" Car cards urging brotherhood and tolerance got the inscription: "There is bigotry in America." The girl who often rode with him would remonstrate, but the young man scarcely heard her. Even then, she recalls, "there...
...along with such talk, he has an engaging ability to kid himself, and his concerns. Once he saw a nature movie about a herd of brown deer with white markings in whose midst appeared a mutation-a white deer with brown markings. "You see," purred the narrator, "he's playing right along with the other deer and they don't even seem to notice the difference." Said Belafonte with a laugh loud enough for the whole theater to hear: "Boy, they're well integrated." In his playful moods, Belafonte is also fond of fabricating stories about himself...