Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Russian Security Council Delegate Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin were engaged in a verbal pillow fight that was not easy to connect with the basic policies of their countries. Gromyko seemed to be pleading for immediate consideration of general disarmament, atoms & all, while Austin seemed to be insisting that discussion of the Report of the Atomic Energy Commission be separated from any other subject...
...manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets, elaborate apartments for the royal travelers, and a special platform on which they could be seen at naval...
...Johnny Crocker developing into a powerful attacking unit, and high-scorer Wally Sears leading the second-string trio, the Chasemen should give the boys on the Hudson plenty of trouble. HARVARD ARMY Crocker (Capt.) rw Snyder Farrell c O'Connell (Capt.) Feloney lw Colburn Preston rd West Briggs ld Austin Lavalle g Wojceihoski
...Freshman Austin then hurried off to Chicago. Later, the press gave him additional education. He was pointedly informed that he had confused the Greek Pals (child) with pous (foot), that pediatrics was a branch of medicine dealing with children's diseases while podiatry (the word he might have had in mind) was the study of foot disorders...
...Austin's fellow Councilmen, musing on the sudden death last week of Brazilian Delegate Leao Velloso, remarked: "I hope Austin doesn't get back in time to make a memorial speech. He'll insist on defining rigor mortis...