Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice introduction from the Pilgrims' Toastmaster Lord Birkett as "a product of that great American tradition that the village boy can rise to high office, [and] has invested the office of Vice President with higher importance and greater prestige than it has ever enjoyed." Nixon in turn made his tribute to Britain: "Every time an American citizen acts politically within the democratic context, we reflect our English heritage." That said, he turned to a basic principle of the Anglo-American alliance-collective security-that is popular in Britain, and pointedly applied it to a crisis that...
...skier is not alone in his anxiety; there are others of the athletically inclined who share his fear and trembling. At any moment the University may turn against their sport, withdraw its funds, demote its standing. And to an ever increasing extent, this is happening...
Martin will turn over the duties of his office to Edwin H. Sauer, Lecturer on Education in the Graduate School of Education. When asked whether Sauer's assignment meant he might eventually become Director of General Education A, Martin replied, "the choice of Sauer is not necessarily a portent...
...Jinx. Joylessness begins at home for Alfred Eaton in the turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact...
...named Mary St. John, who subconsciously loves Alfred's trust fund about as much as she does Alfred. Eaton shortly abandons the sky for "The Street" (Wall) and later bars Mary from his bed but not board after she has an affair with an ambisextrous psychoanalyst. Alfred in turn is smitten with a nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins a 16-year-old triangle that develops many more than three angles. The secrets of the bedroom have always been the worst-kept secrets in O'Hara's novels, and the pages of Terrace...