Search Details

Word: se (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Taking Harvard as an example, we do not feel that membership in the Communist party per se is either "grave misconduct" or "neglect of duty," even though these 17th century terms of the University statutes are eminently clastic. But recruiting for the CP and similar actions are, because they abuse a teacher's classroom prestige in order to train students for potentially illegal acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Failure | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Mexico City, former U.S. Ambassador William O'Dwyer announced what was expected: he is going to remain south of the border-far from New York City and any embarrassing grand-jury questions on his administration of the city. Señor O'Dwyer explained that shortly before retiring as ambassador he had asked for and received the status of immigrant to Mexico. As such, he will keep his U.S. citizenship. His new job: partner in a local law firm in the capacity of "legal advisor," since only Mexican citizens may actually practice law. Meanwhile, ecclesiastical law was moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...allies are generally confused as to whether we are following a policy of containment, liberation or destruction of Communism. Reston opined that the government is not try in to destroy Communism per se, and cannot reconcile a policy of liberation with the "enlightened self-interest" of the United States...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Reston Calls Dulles Policy Vague; Foresees Harmonious Term for Ike | 2/17/1953 | See Source »

...Señora & Señorita. The lessons were soon the talk of El Paso. Some parents, embarrassed because their kids casually chattered with maids whom the adults falteringly addressed in crude "kitchen Spanish," persuaded Superintendent Brown to start grownups' classes in conversational Spanish. Under Brown's guidance, Rivera has branched out into radio & TV programs aimed at putting thousands more in the area on a bilingual footing. This year Dr. Brown assigned two more classroom visitors (a señora and a señorita) to the circuit, which now takes in the second grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First-Grade Beginning | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next