Word: nourishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with a pursuit that at first threatened to become...
...operator named Silvestro Ferrauto, who is bored to death with himself, his daily routine and everything else in his town. Nothing seems to matter. That, thinks Silvestro, is "the terrible part . . . to believe mankind to be doomed, and yet to feel no fever to save if, but instead to nourish a desire to succumb with...
Miss Crawford's chronic idealism, which has helped to nourish such noncommercial projects as the Experimental Theatre and the Actors' Studio, startled hard-shelled Broadway during the run of Brigadoon. With big profits in sight, she gave her cast of 62 what no performers expected from a producer: hospitalization insurance, free advanced acting lessons from Director Lee Strasberg, a week's vacation with...
...agreed on orthodox ways of living and thinking, and who make it their chief concern to see that everyone follows them without a quibble. They stand ready to punish the unorthodox with varying degrees of severity, and continually join battle with any cases of non-conformity which protect and nourish the rebels. The most important sanctuaries for unorthodoxy are the colleges and universities, and in the past few years, many of them have been cocreed and frightened into obedience...
...Swiss have done with their policy of strict neutrality." "Yes, yes," said the newcomer. "We have few natural resources, but we must develop specialized industries and skills as the Swiss have," said the oldtimer. "Like the Swiss we must work hard to cultivate our lands and nourish our herds. Do you understand?" "Yes," said the newcomer, "all but one thing." "And what is that?" "Why didn't Moses keep on walking till he got to Switzerland...