Word: name
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are [several] men who will outlive the memory of Churchill. On this list, to name only a few, will be Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. These men not only "launched lifeboats" but became part of the crew...
Only once by name, with passing scorn for "foolish adventures," did Dean Acheson in his Press Club speech mention Formosa. But the word had hissed like a hot coal on ice earlier in the week when he met for five hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and for four hours next day with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and it steamed all week in the speeches of a small but angry group of Republican critics...
...Free State horse farm. There he has brooded over the country's shortage of dollar exchange. He visited the U.S. last year, tried in vain to drum up a loan, discovered that his government's oppression of its black majority was giving South Africa a bad name abroad...
...sense of deep space that Renaissance artists brought to painting has largely gone by the board. Such moderns as Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Rouault set the fashion for flatter pictures. "Leonid" (real name Léonide Berman) is a 53-year-old painter who flouts that fashion. His work, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, was as spacious as he could make...
...paid up to $25 a seat to hear La Bohème. The performance was doomed from the start. Derisive whistles greeted the tenor's vain struggles for the high notes. After the soprano's first-act aria, a critic cracked: "They call me Mimi, but my name is Brünnhilde...