Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maclean's magazine, in an article by Ottawa Editor Blair Fraser, brought the argument into the open. Author Fraser gave unstinted support to the Levesque faction and belabored the opposing group. "The Duplessis government," he charged, "has used every kind of pressure on Laval University to fire [Levesque]; ultra-conservatives in the Quebec clergy have twice carried their war against him to the Vatican itself . . ." To force the issue at Laval, continued Fraser, Duplessis had withheld half of a provincial $4,000,000 grant...
...living tissues. This damage is not mere "burning"; it is chiefly due to subtle chemical changes produced within the cells. When chemists have a better understanding of the relation of light to life, they stand a better chance of protecting atomic-age humans against gamma rays, which are "ultra-high-frequency light...
...from the post. But it was Bolero that set the pace, and Citation trailed him around the first turn and into the backstretch. It was a jet pace. Though the times did not count as official, Bolero was under the world records for five and six furlongs on the ultra-fast track.* Even so, he could not shake the Calumet colt...
From the end of the war until last year, the largest part of the mail in this angry category belabored the editors for being too antiCommunist. "TiME, in its ultra-Rightist position, seems to be carrying on the tradition of [getting] everybody mad at Soviet Russia," was the way one irate letter writer put it. Other typical comments: "Your article is the all-time high so far in your anti-Soviet hate-mongering campaign, and puts the vituperative anti-Communist propaganda of Goebbels to shame." "Shame on your incessant and hysterical saber-rattling against Communism...
...Matthiessen by Boston Herald columnist Bill Cunningham has led to a flurry of editorial rebuttals in that paper over the last week. The article appeared last Monday, the day of Matthiessen's funeral, and referred to his suicide as "a confession of moral cowardice" and the "ne plus ultra of dramatizing oneself to the last possible fraction of a second...