Word: profession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another elected ex-dictator. It was a moment for the U.S. people in general, and the State Department in particular, to face a distasteful fact: with these changes, all the South American republics except Uruguay will be governed by dictators or ex-dictators. Some of the governments still profess to be well disposed toward the U.S. and its ideas of democracy. But it is painfully clear that those ideas are on the defensive -and losing ground...
...these extracts hint, Author Winsor's eagerly awaited new book is about what she calls "primal" relations. Her publishers profess to believe that in The Lovers she has "unearthed the roots of the conflict between the sexes with candor and rare understanding," but this is not quite true. The Lovers has candor, all right, and its understanding is as rare as a steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe. What she investigates are not concealed roots but visible furnishings: "His body . . . had the ... apparent hardness...
...record was held briefly in 1852 by the Baltic, 2,664-ton sidewheeler which averaged 13 knots. Cunarders profess they are unconcerned by the new threat. Sniffed Cunard Chairman Fred Bates: "Speed for the sake of speed has not entered into our reckoning...
...annual conference of Britain's Library Association, Author-Theologian C. S. Lewis hada few words to say about the old controversy of fairy tales v. "realistic" stories: "What profess to be realistic stories for children are likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me. The school stories did . . . Some people contend that we must try to keep out of a child's mind the knowledge that he is born into a world...
...Perhaps the greatest single change that one could hope for in the immediate future," he said, "would be a burying of the hatchet between the professors of liberal arts colleges and so-called professional educators. The two feuding parties," he continued, "have been on the one hand those who profess a knowledge of subjects, and on the other those who profess a knowledge of education, or are teaching in our public schools...