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Word: sinse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Central to the play, of course, is the character of Swift himself. In a series of flashbacks, his friends in turn recall his malevolence from seven points of view the seven deadly sins. In each kaleidoscopic event, they are searching for the one clue that will explain his cal nature...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: The Dreaming Dust | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

The first of two poems in the issue, Alan R. Grossman's "The Sands of Paran" employs Old Testament imagery to describe the plight of a modern world which is the "I" in this poem. The solemn cadence of the meter lends to Grossman's piece a suitable gravity. In...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Advocate | 11/19/1954 | See Source »

He also likes to manufacture verbs (e.g., to casualize-to employ casual labor), make up opposites (diseconomy, derestrict), and use unnecessary nouns as escapee ("We already have escaper"). He indulges recklessly in the not un-habit (not unjustifiably, not unduly unreasonable), shilly-shallies hopelessly in the apparent belief that "mistiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Gowerize | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

In 1934, Mordecai Fowler Ham, a fiery-eyed, long-fingered Kentucky revivalist, began to blaze away at Charlotte from a tabernacle on the edge of town. Billy Frank Graham somehow sensed that he was a sitting duck for Mordecai Ham, and carefully stayed away. Finally, at his mother's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Evangelist | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

For in refusing to see Mendes-France, Dulles committed one of the cardinal sins of diplomacy--meddling in the internal affairs of another nation. It was such U.S. meddling that almost caused the defeat of Italy's DeGasperi and so embarrassed Germany's Adenauer when the State Department openly supported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diplomacy by Impulse | 9/30/1954 | See Source »

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