Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supports. Immediately following the Capper's article, the Hall Country Farm Bureau attacked Mitchell and appointed a committee of three to see the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, at which Mitchell is chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics with instructions to try to muzzle the wayward professor and to "take any further action they deem advisable...
...Frankly . . . we do resent being treated as moderately wayward children, wantonly ignorant of the most elementary historical, cultural, and philosophical truths. Permit me to cite a few instances, with names deleted and subjects disguised, but in no measure overdrawn...
...Hope of Walt Whitman. The idea of chronicling Sadakichi's wayward life and times began as a club gag. But Fowler took it seriously, and raked together the few known facts about this eccentric's eccentric. When he was not with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call...
Last week, in a special series, the News told its readers just how far the three Rs have spread. "A teen-age reign of terror." it said, "has transformed New York City's public-school system into a vast incubator of crime in which wayward and delinquent youngsters receive years of 'protection' while developing into toughened and experienced criminals." What is being done about the rising rate of rape, assault, knifings, thefts and dope addiction? Says the News: largely because of a feeling that neither the Board of Education nor Superintendent William Jansen (TIME, Oct. 19) will...
...moderation, there is much that Camus' rebellion fears. Nihilism and terrorism, its wayward daughters, it hates and fears as the true believer hates and fears the heretic. Camus senses in these systems the tragic consequences of a rebellion gone awry. Nihilism and the terror4 are wrong because they have overstepped the limits. For them the search for order has brought murder and destruction. But with the great force Camus asserts that it need...