Word: umbrellaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoulder to shoulder under a purple umbrella, two girls left their porticoed high school one drizzly afternoon in Washington. D.C. They seemed identical -lumpy teen-agers with bandannas and sagging sox-except that one was a Negro, the other white. Last week, as other Southern cities rumbled angrily (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such quiet scenes in the nation's capital spoke volumes about school integration-which Washington once viewed with frightened alarm...
Edward K. Shanahan '59 was clubbed with his own umbrella Tuesday night as he had tried to bluff his way past a similar group. Like Hart, he was returning from the Kresge Dining Hall, where he was employed...
Behind great smoky glasses and a slim umbrella, Greta Garbo landed at Idlewild, home from a visit to Europe. A reporter asked: "What brings you to New York?" Said Garbo before disappearing: "I live here...
...slow to arrive at decisions, he partly made up for it by a relentless, austere capacity for hard work. Even at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed...
...chosen Pope, not to surrender any of the Vatican's independence. Restrictions of the Camerlengo's authority are severe; with the heads of the Sacred Congregations, he superintends whatever Vatican business may not be postponed but may not make major decisions. Sign of his office: an umbrella, ancient Oriental symbol of power, once used to represent the papacy in general...