Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When classes were over, I went with Mr. Fisher to the sunny school yard, where the Iranian, United Nations and American flags flew. The student body was assembled there and, at a signal, recited the following pledge: 'I pledge allegiance to my own country, and to the United Nations, of which it is a part. One world brotherhood of peaceful nations, with freedom and justice for all.' Then, two by two, the students, including the young son of a Soviet citizen, stepped forward to repeat the pledge in their native languages. They were: American, Armenian, British, Bulgarian, Chinese...
...House promptly slapped Ed Gossett and passed the bill with a resounding voice vote. But the bill had a clouded future as it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, by interminable secret hearings, bovine deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...
...Meaning of Security. The whole process of emergency clearances, Lilienthal went on, had been specifically authorized by law to speed AEC's work. A breakdown of plutonium production was threatened in the overworked Hanford, Wash. plant, for example, and it had been necessary to rush in a corps of workers to expand the plant. "To lose 60 or 90 days [through loyalty checks] at that juncture," said Lilienthal, "was a very serious responsibility for the commission...
Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
Fifty years of athletic tradition went out the window yesterday when HAA director William J. Bingham '16 announced the adoption of a comprehensive new letter award system, a system which would make it possible for Harvard athletes to win 'H's" without competing in the Yale game...