Word: manned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a college campus, a C is still a fashionable grade for a bright young man whose pursuit of fun often overrules his search for knowledge. But not any longer at Massachusetts' Amherst College. There "gentleman C" and even B students whose performances do not measure up to their abilities have a new name: underachievers. With the title is awarded a mandatory one-year leave of absence from the college. Last week, in his annual report, Amherst President Charles W. Cole said that the college's program to unload loafers had fared well during its first experimental year...
...occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when tradition turned them into kings and gave them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth of 20; Balthazar, King of Ethiopia, was a black man of about 40; Melchior, King of Arabia, was supposed to be 60. Their remains were said to have been found by St. Helena, the relic-hunting mother of Constantine the Great, and later brought to Cologne Cathedral, which claims them today...
...Greccio, three years before he died, St. Francis preached before a manger filled with hay, beside which stood an ox and an ass. Wrote an early biographer, Thomas of Celano: "Greccio was transformed almost into a second Bethlehem, and that wonderful night seemed like the fullest day to both man and beast for the joy they felt at the renewing of the mystery...
...have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower pot, belts out campaign songs in Italian and Yiddish, bursts out explosively at Tammany men with chalk-stripe suits and Shinola in their hair. He has the look of a man who likes fire trucks...
...goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane...