Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...
During the terrific crush of the first post-war years, students found themselves effectively impaled on their War Service Credits. This year, with some of the pressure off the Dean's office and the Registrar, refusing all February applications, undergraduates can expect some relief. Honors candidates and students who graduate with less than eight terms of college will be allowed to waive their service credits and stay on until they can complete four full years of college. Each case will be judged by a man's genuine educational drive and on the applicability of his non-college training...
...prescribes internationalism-a U.N. with Russia counted out: "The veto must be abandoned. ... It is the dictatorship of one nation ruled by one man. That kind of U.N. cannot save democracy. Stalin is not yearning to save democracy. . . . Russia will employ it as a weapon to divide and ultimately crush the democracies. . . . The U.N. is not an international government. It must be remade to become one. It is very likely that the moment the nations begin reshaping the U.N. they will be on the way to an international government without Russia...
...Gifts. In the crush of the homecoming, spry Washington Luiz, 78, bore up sturdily. To well-wishers he launched into a spirited eulogy of the U.S.: "A country which has largely solved its principal problems." He wound up on the right patriotic note: "Here also, by the mercy of God, there are to be found gifts of heaven and earth which will always bear fruit if cultivated by friendship, by persevering initiative, by just enterprise and honesty-attributes which Brazilians do not lack...
Scary rumors of a record enrollment goaded bookstore owners into a complete reorganization of existing facilities. The Harvard Coop, greatest offender during last year's crush, has completely revamped an antiquated system and now sells 25 percent more books in a given time than last term. Similarly, Phillips Book Store performs an effective razzle-dazzle with texts and orders. The joker in an otherwise excellent system lies with the inadequate, inaccurate book lists presented to the stores...