Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neckers, the rolling, spacious (1,900-acre) campus of the University of Wisconsin has always offered a goodly choice for a few hours on the Old Ox Road. Some couples, as the old song records, go up to Observatory Hill,* some to the shore of Lake Mendota; others just scatter. Last week Professor Howard Gill of the sociology department suggested that this phase of campus mores could stand a bit of organizing...
...photographs, it was almost impossible not to visualize him in an old-fashioned cop's helmet, or to picture him as an honest bartender, white apron, gold watch chain and all, stepping out of the gaslit past, with a bung starter in one meaty hand', to scatter the rascals for good...
Since 1884, the Roman Catholic Church has formally disapproved cremation. Many Hebrews also frown on it, though Sir Philip Sassoon of the great Jewish banking family had a bomber squadron scatter his ashes. The Church of England sanctioned ash-scattering in 1944, if disposal were on consecrated ground. No Britain of top prominence has yet availed himself of the method. Although the last two Archbishops of Canterbury were cremated, as was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, none asked that his ashes be scattered. (But South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts had his ashes scattered on a hill at his farm...
...Roses. Some resistance to the practice comes from its cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...
Neither show came off. Before boarding his U.S. Army Air Force plane at New Orleans, González canceled the civic welcome because he thought it an extravagance. When the time came, the Communists did little more than scatter a few leaflets in the streets. Otherwise, they were lost in the crowds whose spontaneous applause and cheers were the best indication that González' popularity is still high...