Word: refreshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None for the Road. In Paris, contending that a client charged with reckless driving on the way home from a nightclub had simply been too sober, Lawyer Rene Floriot asked the court to imagine sitting up until 5 a.m. "without letting champagne refresh your ideas and your palate," concluded: "Under these circumstances . . . a catastrophe is inevitable...
...most important is the increased enrollment. Before the war, when there were only 270 men in Winthrop, he could call each by his first name. Now with 380, he finds it difficult just to remember all the faces. Though he must rely on an claborate filing system to refresh his memory for recommendations and the like, he continues to take a strong personal interest in the House members. Despite the growing enrollment, however, Ferry remains a firm supporter of the House system, and says, "If Harvard doesn't take a fifty or a hundred-year filing at making the House...
...Crown and Commonwealth themselves, exists for the people who will be watching it. By resurrecting the pageantry of the days when Britons lived for the Crown, the Coronation will renew their pride in the democratic revolution that has been worked inside the forms of monarchy. The delerious celebration will refresh peoples whose economic and cultural capacities have either passed their peak or not yet reached...
...Time to Refresh? Excitement, enthusiasm and confusion greeted him when he returned to Springfield. He picked his own personal campaign manager: Wilson Watkins Wyatt, onetime president of the A.D.A. and onetime Fair Deal Housing Expediter, and made it clear that his campaign would be run from Springfield, not from Washington. He named a new chairman of the Democratic National Committee: Stephen Mitchell, a little-known Chicago lawyer who had been, like Stevenson and Wyatt, a Washington operator (a Washington name for smart young lawyers in Government bureaus). Stevenson held several press conferences, some of them on a not-for-attribution...
...therefore of the utmost importance that the educated mind remain clear and steady." But unfortunately, the good minds seemed to him to be the first to be eroded by "torrents of emotion-bearing catchwords." What the U.S. needed, he decided, was a place where the educated could refresh themselves with reflection and study...