Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCone, Herter, et al. were so impressed that they urged Hubert Humphrey to arrange another session to brief State Department, CIA and AEC second-stringers not only on his conversations with Khrushchev but on the techniques of "informal diplomacy" while abroad. Next morning Humphrey went to the White House, spent more than an hour with Dwight Eisenhower, reported that Khrushchev had told him that the Soviet Union has a five-megaton nuclear weapon that employs only one-tenth as much "dirty" fissionable triggering material as old bombs, although U.S. intelligence has picked up no evidence that any such "clean" weapon...
What little money Miyoshi had when she hit the States, she promptly spent on presents for her family. Night after night she would sing in some small nightclub, say a polite "Thank you" (her only English words at the time). She felt lost; even the strange food bothered her. She sent to Japan for squid, waited until everyone in her apartment house had gone to bed, then cooked the dried delicacy on an electric stove. "They all get up and say, 'What's that awful smell...
Bean Cake. After the war the Suzukis spent a year on a Colorado sugar-beet farm, renting their own land to help make a stake. Then they went home to Cressy. For Pat, it was as bad as ever. "I was kind of a homely kid. I was never a school type-I wasn...
Lattimore arrived last week unheralded, almost unnoticed, and spent four days in the Visiting Preacher's suite in Lowell House. Those who met him found him with a wealth of knowledge and an amazing store of personal anecdotes. Owen Lattimore was once a name of great political controversy in American life, but perhaps the one thing Harvard students will remember most about him is that he once rode a Mongolian horse for 18 days through 30 below temperatures...
...this way, I felt closer to the main currents of French life and thought than I did later on in the more advanced French literature courses, reading such masterpieces as, for example, Lautremont's "Les Chants de Maldoror," where page after page is spent describing how the hero made love to a shark. Frederick Seager...