Word: strewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev moved out of his wood-paneled office in the Kremlin one day last week so a CBS crew could strew it with cameras, lights and sound equipment. Next afternoon Russia's most powerful Communist stepped into the glare wearing the light grey suit the TV men had suggested, and two Hero of Socialist Labor medals on his chest. He firmly rejected any makeup, declined earphones for the simultaneous translation system, corrected an introduction describing the office as the room where Russia's major decisions are made: "We don't have a cult of personality...
Fully agreeing with Schweppe, the Post-Intelligencer considered the boycott over academic freedom a "phony issue." The paper editorialized: "Presumably we should don sack-cloth and strew ashes over our uncultured heads for the "egregiousinsult' tendered Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer when that eminent scientist was rejected as a visiting lecturer. But we ain't agonna." The paper continued that "the notion that 'academic freedom' is involved ... is emotional and juvenile balderdash...
...have a red carpet, "he said. "We'll strew orchids." But a whirlwind of mis fortune was shattering Tommy's dream...
...city erupted into wild celebration. On hand to play the first Baltimore major-league baseball game in more than half a century, the new Orioles were paraded through the streets amid 32 floats and the blare of 20 bands. But Tommy D'Alesandro was not there to strew orchids. He was in Bon Secours Hospital suffering from a nervous collapse, minus 40 of his 190 Ibs., a shadow of his once proud, pudgy self...
...family of a widowed vicar (Ralph Richardson) comes home for Christmas. As the clergyman's children deck the halls with boughs of "that darn holly." prickly problems also strew the scene. One daughter (Celia Johnson), who feels it her duty to take care of father, really wants to get married and go to South America with her man (John Gregson). The other daughter (Margaret Leighton), though weary unto drink of her empty London life, refuses to come home and take care of father. She has had a child out of wedlock, and cannot face the "perpetual pretense" of living...