Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also, he's such a great stylist--those wonderful phrases which people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 19--Turkey, the West's candidate for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, went into a slight lead over Communist Poland yesterday in a new round of voting. But the Turks were well short of a two-thirds majority, and the East-West deadlock persisted...
...Administration's spokesman, Flemming went on record last May as opposing the loyalty provision and favoring the loyalty provision and favoring the Kennedy-Clark bill to remove it from the Act. In a letter to the Senats Subcommittee on Education, and in personal testimony, he protested that the provision was unnecessary, ineffective, and discriminatory...
...Crimson football team vaulted into a tie for third place in the Ivy League Saturday, when it staved off a fourth quarter rally by Columbia, pushed over two touchdowns itself, and went on to win, 38 to 22. The Lion threat to repeat Cornell's upset victory of the previous week toughened the lax and complacent Crimson eleven, and irked it into running up the highest Crimson score since the varsity's 60-6 win over Massachusetts...
...picked up a pen, underlined the entire first page of Henry IV, and went out to the Waldorf...