Word: boomeranger
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...work for the screen won him the Motion Picture Academy's "Oscar" in 1947 for his direction of "Gentleman's Agreement." He has also directed "Boomerang," and "A Streetcar Named Desire...
...problem that has been a telling one in the South Ivey has discussed with Gordon W. Allport '19, Professor of Sociology. The problem is to check enthusiasm so that reforms are not instituted too rapidly. "Sometimes if you go too fast it'll boomerang," Ivey explained...
...nations will here make a peace of justice, not . . . of vengeance. That is not merely an act of generosity toward a vanquished foe; it is an act of enlightened self-interest. For a treaty warped by passion often becomes a boomerang...
...boomerang rages and lunacies which never...
...Korea. Though Senator Joe McCarthy had received more invitations to speak for G.O.P. candidates all over the U.S. than all other Senators combined, the issue of Reds in Government had waned (except in Joe McCarthy's home state), and some Republicans were nervously wondering whether it might yet boomerang. Rising prices and taxes bothered most people, but not even the smartest politicians could make out whom the voters blamed. The Republicans were left with the traditional war cry of opposition: "Throw the rascals out." The Democrats, pointing to high farm prices, wages & profits, warned against changing horses...