Word: se
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberty-taking habits of the G.I.s might prove contagious, wants as little fraternizing as possible between Americans and Spaniards. Spain's Catholic bishops, fearing that the U.S. servicemen (the present contingent is roughly 65% non-Catholic) might prove "a wedge of Protestant proselytism," demanded legal "protections" for Catholic señoritas who might fall for the Americans. The bishops pointed out that Roman Catholicism is the state religion in Spain, and that canon law is the law of the land so far as marriage is concerned. Lieut. Colonel Raymond M. Stadta, a Reno priest serving as chief chaplain...
...congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker in her rebozo. Actor Lancaster (a co-producer of the movie) is the virtuoso in this symphony of slam. He slugs his women and plugs his men with a beatific smile...
...Roger B. Lustrand, a bachelor, "having discovered that most of the children on his Christmas list possess large collections of such records as Quacky Clarinet and Otto the Ophicleide*. . . makes a habit of bringing them LPs of the most recondite sort of music: Schoenberg, neoclassic Stravinsky, or Varèse ... A few of the modern parents in Roger's circle actually rear their children on such music. For them, Lustrand thoughtfully provides a present of the Terry the Timpani variety, the most banal he can find, which inevitably becomes the favorite item in the nursery library...
...commercial reactors were built over the years, all Asia would "leapfrog the conventional fuel systems" and hurry on to higher living standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...
Greater than our vague social responsibility to expand per se, he believes, is our responsibility "to maintain the highest level of liberal education ... even more so because of the threat of the serious watering down of liberal education...