Word: shod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bond of intimacy was broken. Claudel wrote to a friend that Gide seemed to him "simply an over-nervous person who has let himself go . . . and poisoned himself with medicine, philosophy and literature." Not without arrogance, he added: "We others, we Catholics, are built to walk dry-shod through the Red Sea." Today, at 84, Claudel has never changed his mind on that. Gide remained uncommitted until his death, declaring himself "neither Protestant nor Catholic but quite simply a Christian...
...embarrassment. He wouldn't wear shoes. When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...
...students at present enrolled at the School are a far cry from the white shod, grew-flanneled undergraduates they pass everyday. The would be teachers are one of the oldest groups studying in the University, ranging from 22 to 52 years old. Because so many of them are already teaching in secondary schools, over half are enrolled as part-time students only. These part-time students pay for each course they take separately, eventually accumulating enough credits for one of the various degrees the school offers. Twice as many men as women are enrolled; almost all students live at home...
...picture and caption above turned up among the radio photos from the cease-fire conference. In one of the 27,000 copies of TIME'S Pacific edition read each week by U.N. soldiers, this sneaker-shod young Red got a look at the Ridgway cover story (July 16), an account of war and peace efforts which would never have reached him through Red censors...
...Theodore Roosevelt, "Diamond Jim" Brady and Henry Ford. For J. & M., the deal meant a transfusion of some" much-needed capital. For General Shoe, whose top Jarman brand sells in the $10.95 to $18.95 range, it was the first move into the high-priced ($27.50439.50) field. For well-shod Maxey Jarman, it was the latest in a series of fast strides by which he has pushed General Shoe, in 18 years, from a single plant to the U.S.'s fourth biggest shoe operation...