Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson has announced on a dozen different occasions that he does not choose to run in 1960. "I will not seek the Democratic nomination this year," he said emphatically on a New York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives...
...disappointed, Department of Justice lawyers may appeal. They well recall that the Supreme Court has reversed LaBuy once before on the case; it upset his 1954 ruling that Du Font's control of G.M. did not violate the Clayton Act. Last week LaBuy himself left the door slightly ajar. He noted that several bills are pending in Washington to ease the tax bite of an enforced stock distribution. If a bill should pass, said the judge, his decision is open for "review and reconsideration...
...door to an escape from blobdom is left slightly ajar. For while oblivion is the goal, simple consciousness, and life itself, is against it. Mahood's last cry from his jar of sawdust is: "You must...
...President Sam Gompers, Woll was blocked by U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis, who railroaded William Green into the slot left by Gompers' death in 1924. Matt Woll stayed on, a hard and able worker, and a visual standout in his natty garb-he favored striped pants, a gates-ajar collar...
...opening the door a crack to modern art (at least up to 1917) and admitting that "both still lifes and landscapes have every right to develop in Soviet art," Gerasimov also left the door ajar for himself. Privately Gerasimov has been turning out a crop of voluptuous nudes with no social import whatsoever...