Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repeal the present blanket Corporation ruling against groups' appearing on a commercial radio or television show, and allow them to appear whenever the Dean decides that such appearance will not be "harmful to the University." Here we feel that the council is standing on weak ground. It not only concedes the rightness of the University's desire to protect its "good name" by limiting the activity of undergraduate groups, but it also grants the University a new power--the power to pick and choose from all groups those which are so good that their appearance would add more...
...minute documentary of a day in the life of Fox Co., 19th Regiment, 24th Division in Korea. Murrow's aim was to concentrate on soldiers' faces, and he accomplished it with shots of a regimental commander giving a welcoming lecture to a group of replacements, and a blanket-draped sergeant routing out his squad at reveille...
...like Kazmaier. One is to pour linemen in on him and not worry about the short receivers, on the theory that even Kazmaier cannot pitch too accurately when the back of his neck is in contact with the ground. The other way is to almost totally ignore Kaz and blanket his receivers, except on running plays. (This is where the optional running pass makes strong men weep...
...Near Martin City, Mont., Hunter Baker Hagstad dropped two other hunters with a single rifle shot. One died; the other was badly wounded. Another Montanan, out for elk, shot a white horse draped with a scarlet blanket and tied to a tree. Joseph A. Hoffman, 36, of Missoula, Mont., killed an elk, promptly keeled over, dead of a heart attack...
...some weeks a kindred argument has been raging in the pages of Britain's London Observer. "Great men," wrote Critic Ivor Brown, firing a blanket salvo at all Joycean obscurantists, "are not so silly as to make a practice of wasting their words." Philip Toynbee, the historian's son, rushed to the defense of obscurantism with some obscuration of his own. "To ask why James Joyce didn't write Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar...