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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Frances Willis hove in sight of the foreign-service officer's lifetime goal: a mission of one's own. President Eisenhower nominated her to be Ambassador to Switzerland (where women do not have a vote and take no part in government). Now counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, she will be the sixth woman, and the first unmarried woman, to become a U.S. chief of mission...
Error 2 goes to the opposite extreme: it sidetracks grammar in favor of sight reading. But the reading is usually made too easy, e.g., texts religiously follow a single sentence structure (subject-object-verb), until students get the idea that they can identify all words by their positions. Actually, the Romans identified by endings. As far as meaning went, it made little difference to them whether a sentence read Canis puellam videt, Puellam cants videt, Canis videt puellam, Puellam videt canis, Videt canis puellam or Videt puellam canis. It all meant: "The dog sees the girl...
Puzzled, the researchers asked Mrs. McK. whether she was a twin. No less puzzled by their apparent second sight, Mrs. McK. replied that she had had a twin brother, who died when three months old. That explained it, they figured: in the womb there had been a connection between the arteries of the fraternal twins, and Mrs. McK. had picked up some of her brother's blood-making cells...
...crowd before him was sullen and restless; several thousand had been dragooned from their homes and jobs by Communist Vertrauensleute (trusties) and herded into the square. Around the flanks hovered armed, blue-uniformed men of the Communist Volkspolizei; just out of sight, their guns ready for any signs of trouble, were soldiers of the Soviet army. The man who wanted to be Lenin spoke, not in triumph but in apology...
...long since testified to a more than passing acquaintance with the artist. Both men were in Madrid in 1767, and Casanova's Memoirs record how he embroiled Mengs in his adventures. One day a beautiful woman invited Casanova to her bedroom, where he was staggered by the sight of her former lover dead on the bed, a dagger in his throat. Undaunted, Casanova threw the body into a stream behind the house, soon after heard that the police were after him. Casanova fled to the house of Mengs, where he hid out until the police finally caught up with...