Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan, the man who will be Foreign Secretary in any new Labor government, laid down his views at a preconference rally. Bevan had just come back from a tour in which he met face to face with Khrushchev, Zhukov, Gomulka and other Soviet-bloc leaders. Nye seemed to have seen much good, observed little evil, and gained no wisdom...
...only ones around the city. The Soviets are still there. The invaders' tanks and heavily armed soldiers no longer man the streets and bridges. They are camped now in the hills of Buda and not far from the American legation in Pest. Only a few are seen on the streets. But their presence is felt-most directly by arrests. More than 100,000 people are estimated to have been arrested since November. The visitor finds that old friends are simply not around any more, and it is unwise to ask about them except in the most discreet terms...
...sphere, more than 500 miles away, is invisible against the glare of the sun. At night it is invisible because it is in the shadow of the earth. Only at dawn or dusk, when the satellite is in sunlight against a background of fairly dark sky, can it be seen...
...rejects, there is a need to justify one's actions, often in writing. If one accepts the values of the original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values. Pound, Fisher, and DeVoto rejected Mormon values. In Fisher and DeVoto can clearly be seen a marked concern for saying something (and justifying), rather than that with form and style. Whipple and Stegner, in large part, accepted Mormon culture but felt that they need to explain why they did so. There are a host of excellent minor poets and novelists born in Mormon Country...
Whipple said that reports that the object seen in Australia and Alaska varied in light intensity only confirm the theory that the observers saw the third stage of the launching rocket and not the satellite...