Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls are heavy with garish tapestries-purple, green, red, black election posters, shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things, for which the U.S. asked neither...
Helen Mand Cam will become the first woman ever to hold a full professorship on the Harvard Faculty next fall, when she moves here from Cambridge University, England, to take the newly-founded Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professorship...
Borgatti had claimed that Watson offered "stone wall" opposition to his requests, and vetoed the Band's requests for financial backing...
...Paris, sidewalk cafés were lined with customers sipping aperitifs or spooning sweetened ices; children sailed toy boats in the stone-rimmed pond of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Italy, peasant women remarked on the number of hens laying two eggs a day; perhaps it was the warm weather. And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining...
...Stone wall" opposition by Associate Dean Watson has temporarily floored three Band proposals concerning University financial aid, rehearsal space, and a proposed South American trip, manager Joseph J. Borgatti, Jr. '45 said last night...