Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activity subordinated to a particular ideology and designed only to secure practical results in the interests of a particular national and political system . . . The new social-political orthodoxy is . . . inimical to the free spirit of science. There is now a scientific party line in the U.S.S.R., and those who stray from it do so at their peril...
...bought 20 years before; so confused that he started the wedding march on the wrong foot; and so dazed that he became hypnotized by the expression of the minister's nostrils and muffed his only line in the service. He spent part of the reception chasing stray dogs out of the house, and unlocking bumpers and directing traffic in the improvised parking lot behind the house...
...monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...
...gabby scoopings into the gutter," Berle has been startled, touched and filled with a sense of responsibility to find that he has a sudden popularity among children TViewers. Fellow vaudevillians who once resented him now hail him as a savior of the two-a-day. Once such a professional stray that he has never been acceptable to Broadway's Lambs Club, he will be honored this week by a $50-a-plate testimonial dinner (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) for contributing to interfaith understanding (he has played benefits for all racial and religious groups). Milton, whose interest...
...little man had yet to learn that democracy was not a matter of bowing to any idol but of standing straight and free as a responsible citizen. Unless this lesson sank in, the little man would easily stray from the road of the democrats to the road of the Communists, who had new idols all ready...