Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred and inviolable") he once enjoyed. ¶ A partial return to appointment rather than election of village chiefs and members of the Upper House...
...broken in the yard of his hut. Then in Eyobélé's open grave a white cockerel was to be beheaded and released. If the headless, fluttering bird flew out of the grave it was well: the dead man was on his way to the upper regions. But if the bird stayed in the grave, the dying kani darkly warned, it would be better for the people of Bokouélé that they lived somewhere else...
...private morals was literally a fiction. Pearl suggests. Dickens, the prose laureate of the era, and Trollope, who boasted that "no girl has risen from the reading of my pages less modest than she was before,'' handed down a false moral portrait of the Victorian middle and upper classes which has persisted to this day. They were abetted. Pearl argues, by biographers and historians who "suppressed and distorted shamefully," in a "conspiracy against truth...
...Weather Bureau's failure to give an adequate warning of the March 17 blizzard was due to its complete lack of reports on Atlantic air conditions, according to Charles F. Brooks '12, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory. The University meteorologist cited "the lack of upper air reports and inadequate knowledge as to how to interpret them," as a major source of difficulty...
...part of the blame for this failure on the Bureau's abandoning of the weather ship "Hotel" two years ago. Reports from this ship midway between New York and Bermuda would have informed forecasters of the shift in direction of the storm. During the critical period, there were no upper air reports at all west of a line from Nova Scotia to Bermuda, and surface reports were also inadequate...