Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages (including 1 doz. diapers, 1 crib blanket, 1 receiving blanket, 2 kimonos, 2 nursing bottles, 4 nipples, 1 pkg. safety pins...
...Army supplied only a plain blanket for the presidential lap (instead of the electric blanket furnished by the Navy last year), and the electric foot warmer did not work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...
...would not be too elaborate or expensive an undertaking to outfit the College with football players. The Administration will not have to resort to subsidization. The H.A.A. will not have to organize a flying squad of scouts to blanket the country...
...Associate Dean Louis Havemeyer yesterday told the Student Council that "stringent fire laws" ruled out a blanket invitation, but that Harvard students can definitely find a dance in New Haven Saturday if they want...
During the current race some independents have accused the CCA of levelling blanket attacks at all unendorsed candidates. It would be hard to deny this. The Association has too often tended to lump all independents into one group in campaign literature--the opposition, "politicians," "grafters," or just poor choices. The CCA does have a case, however, in that many of the strongest independents are opposed to Plan E government, and sworn to remove at least the PR section of the city Charter. With the system working well now, and expected to do better, there is little reason to elect...