Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yen for Neutrality. Most thinking Japanese recognize that the security pact is as much if not more to Japan's immediate advantage than it is to the U.S.'s. They know that Japan has, as yet, no army, navy or air force; and that the U.S. will defend them if they are attacked. But there are dissidents, daily growing more vocal, who want no part of the U.S. protection or alliance. Three completely divergent groups-the liberal intellectuals, the resurgent militarists and the Communists-are united, for different reasons, in a cry that Japan remain neutral between...
...performances, live music concerts, poetry read by the authors, and--most novel of all--regular courses recorded in classrooms of local colleges and universities. For those who like their news with a dash of intelligence, WGBH will call in faculty experts to analyze and interpret current affairs. Those whose yen for practical information goes beyond the chatty shopper's guide will get advice from such institutions as the Nursery Training School of Boston, (a Tufts College affiliate.) Among the programming highpoints are weekly broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, marking that organization's first full-length appearance...
Doomed to be as persistent as the aura of myth surrounding the origin of the cry "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
Doomed to be as persistent as the aura of myth surrounding the origin of the cry "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
...Yen there he see'd the Bishop's coach...