Word: ago
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...jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...
...hard to realize that only four months ago Harry Truman had addressed an auditorium full of empty seats at Omaha. As he walked out on the stage at Philadelphia's Convention Hall (capacity: 14,000) one night last week, the band pumped out Hail to the Chief, and 12,000 people yelled, whistled, clapped, and yipped out the familiar cry: "Give 'em hell, Harry...
...fortnight ago, the Atomic Energy Commission had reserved the right to say what unions are acceptable on atomic projects. It had barred the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers and United Public Workers-on AEC's suspicion that there are Communists in its leadership...
Keeping his planes in the air more of the time than experts thought possible a few months ago, Tunner looks on the lift as a precision operation, not as an adventure or a political demonstration. VIPs alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof airdrome are disappointed to see only a dozen planes on the ground. Tunner is proud of it. He has cut the time needed for unloading, checking, briefing and refueling to 30 minutes. The crews do not usually go into the operations office; it comes to them: a meteorologist and an operations officer in a jeep, a portable snack...
Easily Said. In Paris, 15 Latin American nations under Argentina's leadership prepared a resolution calling for Spain's admission to U.N. This would repeal a resolution the General Assembly passed two years ago, blackballing Franco as an Axis ally and calling on member nations to withdraw their ambassadors from Spain...