Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print in an English-language Pakistani newspaper...
...that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt itself is perennially one of the world's neediest cases, have begun to demand that Cairo do more to help. But the lack of rain in Nasser's northern province was one thing that even efficient Soldier Amer could do very little about...
...that no one would feel he was obliged to anyone for individual attention. This seemed hardly consistent with another of Literature and Life's ambitions-to speed up the service, which most of the 12,000 U.S. visitors to Russia this year discovered is a sometime thing (average breakfasting time: one hour...
...reportedly entertained such celebrities as his friend the master swindler Serge Rubinstein, and some of Mickey Jelke's choicer, $100-a-night call girls. "I always took a big interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They took it from me; nobody will get anything except the lawyers...
...struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul searching." After Van Doren thanked the committee and said he hoped that he would not do "that sort of thing again," Chairman Oren Harris said: "I think you have a great future ahead of you. God bless you." Only New York's Republican Steven B. Derounian (Nassau County) shattered the love feast. "I don't think," he said coldly, "that an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended...