Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ducking the Responsibility. The President's proposals, wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond, far from being acclaimed "with enthusiasm and a determination to pick them up and show that the states really want to reverse the tide of political power which flows to Washington, seemed to be about as popular as a stowaway at the captain's ball." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George Leader (who is prohibited by law from running for re-election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they...
...when a band of Algonquin Indians looked up and saw the square-rigger Mayflower bobbing off the shores of Massachusetts. To their minds this, understandably, was an unexpected sight. Last week, as a reasonable facsimile of the ship sailed-or, more exactly, was towed (against the tide by a Coast Guard cutter)-into sight of thousands at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was no surprise, for the voyage of Mayflower II had for months been heralded in the land till many New Englanders grew bored or cynical. Yet, as Mayflower II picked up her mooring, even the cynics forgot their...
...about transatlantic tours. But there were also a few cautionary notes. English newspapers warned against $2 haircuts, "and as for food," noted the Manchester Guardian, "you cannot, it seems, sustain life on less than about $1 a meal - even of the cheapest cafeteria type." Sighed the conservative Time and Tide: "Any British traveler arriving in New York with $280 in his pocket will soon discover just what poor relations we've become...
John U. Monro, Director of the Financial Aid Office, predicts that the pressure of expansion will result in sweeping changes in the financial aid policies of American colleges. First, there will probably be a substantial increase in loans rather than scholarships to meet the rising tide of enrollments. More people can be assisted through loans, Monro explains, and they put less of a drain on college resources...
...said for him is that he admirably expressed his era. A discerning friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition...