Word: forth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz (pop. 30,000) or Trinidad (pop. 7,500) an intrepid missionary rides forth to minister to the Indians, sometimes to be seen no more...
...scholarly squire, always ready with a merry bit of gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...
...Jack Kirkland; produced by Mr. Kirkland) was the season's final play and worst experience. It concerned the one man in the world who had not been left sterile by an atomic explosion. Plugging doggedly away, Adapter Kirkland (Tobacco Road) left no phrase unturned that might possibly call forth a snicker. But Mr. Adam was worse than vulgar; it was almost maddeningly boring. By week's end it had followed the season to the grave...
...Logan, with an unbroken string of hits (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific) was easily Broadway's cleverest theater mind; Director Kazan, with three successive Critics' Circle awards (All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) stood forth as more truly perceptive, and accordingly stood first...
...rule that instructors could not take part in political activity. Hale said that Parker had taken part in politics "both on and off the campus." Evidently Hale believed that Parker's action--with respect to the leaflets and the rally--had violated the conditions Hale set forth in March...