Word: objects
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object of ridicule in some quarters and an envied example in others. He is our most convincing argument for the theory that 'brains is king...
...Spot of Color. "You have betrayed the hospitality and protection given to you [by Britain] with the grossest treachery . . ." said Lord Goddard, hard-voiced, "your object being to strengthen that creed which then was known to be inimical to all freedom-loving countries . . . You have imperiled the right of asylum which this country has hitherto extended. Dare we now give shelter to political refugees who may be followers of this pernicious creed?-. . . You might have imperiled the good relations between this country and the great American republic with whom His Majesty is allied . . . It is not so much for punishment...
Clement Attlee's new cabinet was scarcely 24 hours old before one of its members was under heavy attack from Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard and his morning Daily Express. The object of Beaverbrook's wrath was bright, balding John Strachey, 48, whom Attlee had just promoted from Minister of Food to Secretary of State for War. The Standard called Strachey "an avowed Communist [who] has never publicly retracted his belief in Communism." The attack touched an exposed nerve: the British public has been shocked by the laxity of military intelligence services disclosed by the espionage...
...theory from geological evidence. He depends mostly upon the mythologies of the world's ancient and not-so-ancient peoples, quoting Hindus, Greeks, Babylonians, Peruvians, Aztecs, Mayas, Chinese and Polynesians. None of these sources speak clearly to back him up. No myth, for instance, describes an object nearly as big as the earth which came close enough to graze it. The myths speak cryptically, and Dr. Velikovsky thinks that that is probably because folks were gagged by "collective amnesia...
...infringe on the bicycles was severely questioned: That the Bermudans tended to discourage automobiles is still evident; speed limit on the highway is 20 m.p.h., and in urban areas, 15 m.p.h. For this reason the visiting motorist must keep a sharp eye open for careening bikes. A specially dangerous object is the "souped-up" bicycle...