Word: blankets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sight of scaffolding, the smell of fresh cement, the sound of winches have become common in cities where until recently weeds had spread a green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
Thousands of embattled undergraduates halted the fracas to stand and watch as two youths raced into the wooden stands and snatched a blanket from over a couple who were engaged in "amorous activities." It was probably the best-witnessed indiscretion since the Harvard off-side penalty that called back Cannon's touchdown...
Dean Bender used student dismissal cases to illustrate how college organization works. Each student who comes up for dismissal, he said, is treated as an individual case. There is no blanket ruling, except violation of the parietal rules concerning women in dormitories, which almost automatically leads to dismissal. But the Faculty has the final say in every case...
Textron Retreat. In the Battle of Nashua (N.H.) over the closing of Textron, Inc.'s sheet and blanket factory (TIME, Sept. 27), the town won a partial victory. Harassed by a Senate committee, Textron's Royal Little agreed to continue his sheetmaking department (which employs 1,000 of his 3,500 workers) "as long as it remains profitable." Little also picked up some ammunition for his case against New England's easygoing textile workers. When he offered to keep the entire plant open if the workers would accept a heavier work load and increase production, the C.I.O...
Radcliffe Student Council today extended a blanket invitation to all Annex students -- upperclassmen and freshmen alike--to drop in on weekly Council sessions in the Student Government office, Longfellow 13, every Tuesday from...