Word: imbroglio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half the loan if they enter teaching. Thus, if the University administered these loans without the oath and were then enjoined to return the funds to the government, full restitution would be necessary. And students who had borrowed with...
...elegant little speech at the Academy Awards imbroglio the other night, Jacques Tati modestly observed that he was Hollywood's nephew, not its uncle. His gracious self-deprecation probably escaped much of the audience, so mightily absorbed in figuring its scores and misses in terms of lucre...
...places heavy emphasis on man's material march. He is strong on the movement of trade, sometimes weak on the movement of ideas. As a result, he seems more at home in Rome than in Greece, more understanding of the clever, quarrelsome city-states of Italy ("The word imbroglio is hers") and the colonial sweep of Spain ("Next to God came spices") than of the Middle Ages. He hastens over Plato and Aristotle in a sentence, barely nods to St. Augustine, gives no indication at all of the significance of St. Thomas Aquinas...