Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This immigration had been different. The Puerto Ricans came not by ship, huddled in the steerage, but by plane. Being U.S. citizens, they beat at no immigration bars, never had their pictures taken in colorful native costume behind the wire enclosures of Ellis Island. They simply seeped in, landing by 20s and 30s from battered planes at La Guardia field, Teterboro and Newark, suddenly appearing beside their cardboard suitcases on the city's sidewalks outside a hole-in-the-wall travel agency...
...program has "grown out of demands in a CRIMSON editorial that more undergraduates be allowed in Sanders Theatre when the Orchestra plays there, and a letter from the Dean of Humanities at M.I.T. asking for a private listening wire from Symphony Hall," Judd said...
...last the great day came. With thumping hearts the telescope watchers kept the nest under minute-to-minute watch. Had the precious egg brought forth a fuzzy nestling? Yes, it was true. Two days later. Little 38 was walking with its tall parents on shaky, wire-thin legs...
...offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk in public an endless slack wire over incredible abysses. It's a quivering wire, which seems to be constantly and maliciously shaken, but you will have to walk it right through to the day (which won't be very cheerful when it comes) when you are retired Emeritus. All your lives, you will...
Vengeance Is Mine. For the padre a test comes soon enough. Another prisoner finds that the Chinese girl with whom he has fallen in love is living near the prison camp. Will Padre Choyce slip through the barbed wire with him and marry him to his girl? A short time before, the chaplain would have been horrified at the risk; now, somewhat to his surprise, he considers it his spiritual duty to go. In the novel's climax, the prisoner's wife has been raped by the Japanese, and he avenges her in a burst of human rage...