Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard J. Linehan, Chief of the Cambridge Police, said that the board had voted to recommend permanent adoption of the one-way pattern, without any modifications. The letter of recommendation was sent to the City Manager's office but was not forwarded to the Council...
...after Stalin's death, when "somebody named Khrushchev" beckoned Togliatti and other Red leaders to a secret meeting of the Cominform in Prague, Togliatti refused to go, sent a deputy instead. How much further this disdain went was described last week in the magazine Azione Comunista, by Giulio Seniga, once a key man in Togliatti's Communist Party. Togliatti did not even meet Khrushchev until the famous 20th Party Congress in Moscow, wrote Seniga. On his return to Italy, Togliatti said of Khrushchev's famed outburst against Stalin: "He was like an elephant walking on eggs...
...employed by the Irish Land Commission dividing a large estate into small farms when they discovered, to their horror, that the government surveyor intended that a fence should be driven straight through a rath, or fairy fort. They promptly downed picks and shovels and folded their arms. Their foreman sent for a government inspector, a citified cynic who believed the rath was nothing more than an ancient burial mound. He suggested that the fence wire be strung over the rath instead of cutting through...
...education." ¶From Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association, came a reminder to fellow educators that "not all our critics are our enemies." Obvious although unnamed targets of his remarks: two officials of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals (an NEA affiliate) who sent a round-robin letter to 16,500 high school principals recently, suggesting a boycott of TIME and LIFE (TIME, April 21). Observed Carr pointedly: "Some adverse comments about our schools are justified. In such cases, the appropriate reaction is not fear or anger, but rather prompt and remedial action...
...readers will agree that Dr. No, which Macmillan will publish in the U.S. in July, is magnificent writing, but pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: "At last, an unprintable book that is readable." Secret Agent Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate some mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops...