Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Hall doubtless seems only another agglomeralation of lecture halls, with narrow staircases and ill-lighted rooms that make it appear slightly more grotesque than some of its neighbors. Yet for fifty years this one building was the center of College life in just about every sense of the word--here for the student of seven score years ago were gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually all but the very last...
...program a kind of U.S. imperialism? Those Americans made uncomfortable by this word might have to find another word which did not distress them so much. For the U.S. was in a world divided between two great antagonists. Communist imperialism must be contained. U.S. influence must expand to contain it; otherwise the U.S. might be engulfed...
MacVeagh shared the Greek Government's exile after the Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free...
...spite of the untactful use of the word "exploitation," the Philippines voted in a plebiscite last week (March 11) to amend the Constitution as Washington wanted. The vote was light (about 1,000,000 out of a registered vote of 3,000,000). With returns still limping in from outlying islands, the vote was about 5-to-1 in favor of the amendment. Even in Manila, center of Philippine economic nationalism, the amendment carried nearly 3-to-1. The only excitement occurred when Philippine President Manuel Roxas got a close shave from a Manila barber, one Julio Guill...
Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...