Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Margaret yawning, stretching, tapping her silver slippers, riffling through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick up one of her first and worst tantrums. When she learned that Elizabeth's dress was to have a train and hers none, she raised such an unholy uproar that the King himself called in the dressmaker and ordered trains for both girls' dresses...
...main purpose of the pyramids was to give lasting protection to Pharaohs' mummies, but the slaves who built them must have seen the pyramids as foursquare symbols of tyranny at its solidest and heaviest. By contrast, the plans for Manhattan's U.N. Secretariat called for lightness, elegance-and fragility. The Secretariat's sky-filled, four-acre walls of windows, which might be shattered by a single bomb blast, would symbolize an optimism unknown to tyrants...
...skillfully delivered an eight-pound baby at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Dr. George L. Hoffman declared: "Color television is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...
...assaults upon radicals and liberals. But how is the Commission's own policy to be carried out, and who is to carry it out? These are questions of the utmost importance, and yet the Commission has disregarded them. Are the agents to be state legislatures? This country has seen how consistently these "little dies Committees" have ignored the distinction between Communists and non-Communists. Are the agents to be college administrators or trustees or school superintendants? These people are often as sensitive to social pressure as legislators. And what man or group of men in America can be trusted...
...magazines, and the postal department-must have full confidence in the Lampoon's strangely bloated reputation as a humorous magazine. (A small but effective survey just concluded by this department has revealed that the majority of people who consider the lampoon to be funny have neither read it nor seen it. Few people questioned admitted to not having heard of it, however, though some were under the impression that it was the University's daily newspaper...