Word: raring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome reverberated this week to the event from which the 1950 Holy Year would hereafter take its name: the Jubilee Year of the Assumption. Clergymen and laymen poured into the city to be present at that rare Catholic occasion-the proclamation of a dogma of the church...
...example of that rare talent among men, to stand off and talk to us as if he were right among us. He has always been the warmth by my hearth...
Taking prisoners is a rare maneuver in aerial warfare. Last week in North Korea, however, an air force team turned the trick. Four U.S. fighter-bombers attacked a convoy of ten North Korean trucks moving along the road between Anju and Sukchon, knocking out eight of the trucks and leaving two intact. A Fifth Air Force C-47 transport equipped with a loudspeaker and an interpreter then took over, issuing orders in Korean from the air for the truck drivers to turn their vehicles around and drive south...
Taste Makers. Steuben has not always done so well. When young Arthur Houghton, fresh out of Harvard with a well-developed taste for rare and fine books,* went to work in the Corning Glass Works 21 years ago, Steuben was an unwanted, money-losing subsidiary. Glassblowers made their own designs, and tried to outdo each other in rococo examples of their craft. Houghton, whose family controls Corning Glass, was wasting his well-cultivated taste on ordinary glassmaking. He asked for and was given Steuben in 1933, along with a stockpile of "blinding-colored glass monstrosities" and the lusterless annual deficit...
Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander (TIME, Sept...