Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imported dancing. When Vienna's famed Fanny Elssler danced in Washington nearly a century before, Congress declared itself a holiday. During World War I, Pavlova had packed Manhattan's Hippodrome (on a bill with elephants and Chinese jugglers), went on to make The Dying Swan a synonym for ballet across the nation. Nijinsky had toured the country in 1916, was already a legendary dancer...
...France? Why should a nation that has successfully survived a thousand years be always on the brink of disaster? Why should a nation that blazed the Continent's trail to democracy be unable to govern itself? Why should a nation whose name has ranked for centuries as a synonym of enlightenment and intelligence be unable to make up its mind? No one ponders these questions more earnestly than the French themselves. As France sulked proudly at the sting of the U.S. Secretary of State's rebuke and vacillated helplessly over the choice of a President who would exercise...
...Cartoonist Searle's horror, St. Trinian's has also become a synonym. He first realized this on the day he read a newspaper account of how three girls in Scotland actually did try to burn down a school. "When he read that," says his wife, "he went absolutely white. I kept praying -please, please, don't let them mention St. Trinian's!" But, of course, the newspapers...
...first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio comedians, who found that Kinsey's name had become an acceptable synonym for sex. One spinster snapped back at Kinsey that his elaborate study only confirmed what she had known all along-that "the male population is a herd of prancing, leering goats...
...church," the Cardinal had said, "recognizes the necessity with which rulers in some Catholic countries may be faced of granting-because of grave reasons-a degree of tolerance to the other cults. But tolerance is not a synonym for freedom of propaganda which foments religious discord and alters the secure and unanimous possession of truth and of religious practice in countries such as Italy, Spain and others...