Word: special
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night to deodorize the area with scented water and citronella (the refugees had been settled elsewhere), on through the jumbled slums where Pakistani women, their pastel veils and head scarves fluttering in the sun, watched from roof tops. At Victoria Road, the two Presidents switched...
...Paul Hoffman, pioneer administrator of the Marshall Plan and now managing director of the United Nations Special Fund, saw a need for a coordinated global effort to replace sporadic philanthropy. Said Hoffman: "All countries, whether their incomes are high, medium or low, must in their own self-interest accept proportionate responsibility for a rapidly expanding world economy...
...technological change and the methods through which new techniques are diffused through industry--this is coordinated with Leontief's work on a dynamic model. Application of the table to regional problems is being perfected; while various sectors of the economy--particularly household consumption and natural resources--are being given special attention...
...Committee disregarded the most important suggestion made by a special Student Council group. A great many people hide books and keep them out of circulation simply because they do not wish to study in Lamont. The buzzing lights, the oft-inadequate ventilation, and the noise and crowding of Reading Period make the building undesirable for concentrated work...
Undramatic though the play is, the final trouble lies less with subject matter than with form. Had Silent Night been not a full play but a longish one-acter, it might have had a special appeal. It could, just long and lyrically enough, have chronicled a meeting and sustained a mood-and with no tossed-in newlyweds, no shaky final scene. Unfortunately, as a one-acter it would not fit the Broadway scheme of things, though as a full-length play it scarcely fits it either...