Word: paste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Descending from the heights of pedantic semantics, the Secretary triumphantly reviewed U.S. foreign policy, past & present. "In the light of what I am saying," he demanded, "does it make sense to say, 'I want to re-examine our programs, I want to look at this all over again to see whether we should have started...
...refused admittance to the U.S. Immigration officers would only say that he was "temporarily excluded." Presumably, though the tight-mouthed immigration officials would not say so, Szigeti was being held under the new McCarran internal security law. Said the bewildered 58-year-old virtuoso, a California resident for the past nine years: "It makes me a prisoner. What have I done...
Then the Senators began wandering through Lee's intriguing past: he had been born Ephraim Zinovi Liberman in Harbin, Manchuria (in 1907), had gone to Moscow briefly in 1930 under a Chinese identity card and the name of Li Hoi-min. Twice he was refused U.S. citizenship because, said the court, he was "not attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution" (presumably because his first wife had divorced him on grounds of physical cruelty). In 1941 he was naturalized at last. The Senators hinted that Lee, in Commerce, had held up aviation gasoline shipments to Nationalist China...
Currently in the fifth month of his first six years, Griswold has decided to dedicate himself to learning his job and maintaining more or less of a status quo at Yale while he's learning. Occasionally he talks about his past as if he were intimidated by it. Actually his present uneasiness in Yale's presidential chair stems from a healthy respect for the problems, particularly financial that the president of Yale must handle. Griswold is not "worried" about his problems; he is "concerned." He is confident that they can ultimately be solved and once they are, he wants...
Such clamor has in the past been pretty well squelched by tradition, some student hostility, much student apathy, and by the Yale Daily News. The News wields terrific influence at Yale. Its editors sparkle brightest in the Eli hierarchy of "wheels." One man, the chairman, dictates policy for its editorial page and, in the past, he has been loathe to share his powerful position with any other group. No other organization has tried to speak for undergraduates...