Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana's Jenner introduced a resolution that would have committed the Senate, in advance, to reject any negotiated settlement relinquishing any territory to Communists anywhere. Cried Jenner: "The air is full of foreboding that a carefully laid plan is under way for the United States to give up, bit by bit, its commitments in the Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that...
...next 28 years. He got jobs as a census taker, factory worker, salesman. Once, during the Depression, he worked his way around South America on the tug Mira Flores. A storm disabled the boat, and "we lived off flying fish for four or five days. Caught them, bit off the heads and ate the rest...
...Labor platform merely goes a bit further than the Conservative. It calls for an immediate end to all atom and hydrogen bomb tests, immediate withdrawal by Chiang from Quemoy and Matsu, the "neutralization" of Formosa, and admission of Red China to the U.N. What both of these platforms add up to can be described in one word-appeasement. So, whether Tories or Socialists win this election, we'll have an "ally" dedicated to knuckling under to Red tyranny all around the world and persistently pressuring our Government to do likewise...
...feet was the varsity's narrow margin of victory in its opener against Tech and the Engineers should be every bit as tough this time. Stroke Larry Cabot will also have to keep his eye on Dartmouth, which swept by Yale at Hanover last Saturday in excellent early season time...
...Greene is somewhat wooden, and that Mr. Sperry reads his lines like a Sunday orator. But what Gilbert thought of as sentiment is now considered silly, and the overdone speeches fully contribute to the show. Stephen Bolster as the Duke and Jacqueline Crowell as his wife are a bit weak on their singing, but are sufficiently pompous in the role of aristocracy. The Duchess and her daughter, Merle Moses, flip their fans in fine precision, although a little too often. Miss Moses was nervous in the opening act last night, but is otherwise adequate. Her secret attraction is the drumboy...