Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crutch was hesitantly proffered him. The fifth member of the committee, Iowa's Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, next day looked at the FBI summary and said he could not give any blanket absolution without a look at the full files, although he was "not making any final conclusions either...
They haggled for nigh a month as they traveled toward Peking. The Chinese grew testier. So did the British-they disparaged shark's-fin soup, complained of smelly peasants (like "putrefying garlic on a much-used blanket"), ridiculed the native opera ("the instrumental music, from its resemblance to the bagpipes, might be tolerated by Scotchmen; to others it was detestable"). Then, as they neared the walls of Peking, the troubled mandarins agreed that the troublesome ambassador might kneel before the Emperor on one knee and bow three times, repeating this homage thrice. The Canton trade, the British told themselves...
This philosophy is best seen in the blanket rule of the Dean's Office which excludes Radcliffe girls from a club by requiring it to have 100 percent Harvard membership. This philosophy fails to consider either the statistical inferiority of Radcliffe, or the obvious success of such virtually spliced groups as the orchestras. It is a backward-looking, over-pessimistic, misogynist, and utterly pernicious doctrine...
...assets total $10.8 billion-but it was on its way. In 1950's first two months, said Lincoln proudly, Metropolitan had sold more group insurance than in the entire previous year. A big reason: it had just signed a contract with Bethlehem Steel Corp. for a $325 million blanket policy covering 107,000 workers...
...could be irascible and harddriving. When U.S. Army Lieut. Sam Houston shepherded a delegation of Indians to his office-with himself togged out in loincloth and blanket-Calhoun gave him a tongue-lashing for looking "like a savage." Men felt in Calhoun a quality of excitement, of suppressed fire, of the dominating intellectual vitality that had been felt in Alexander Hamilton...