Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilder claimed, speak to a cosmic "man," unlike much Continental literature of the 18th and 19th centuries which addressed particular nationalities. It is a literature which discarded the conventions of "time secession," recognizing that experience is not regulated by a chronological order of events, and thus opening a new sphere of psychological narration...
Well, with childish faith and quite unmindful of the consequences, we granted Mr. Stalin three out of four of these requests. We destroyed Germany and thus opened up that country and its former sphere of influence to Russian infiltration . . . We destroyed Japan and thus opened up that part of the world to Russia's aggressive designs. We demobilized our powerful military establishment...
...Massachusetts General Hospital, is more specific. "Organized medicine cries now for voluntary health plans but does little to produce them. The record shows that when others have sought to do these things, organized medicine has obstructed them. A learned profession has sunk, or been dragged, in its political sphere, to a distressingly low level...
...vigorous, compactly built man, Post liked to express his individuality by indulging in cold, water bathing in South Boston during the winter months. His intellectual sphere seemed to know no limits. He was expert in the art and history of the Romance Languages countries, and competent in a score of languages and in other fields of learning
...Oldtime circusgoers recall other such acts where performers used bicycles (a harder trick, since they had to pedal to get the momentum). But the sphere, although elevated, was not split...