Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stomach ailment. Since the date of his return is uncertain, Merie Fainsod, professor of Government, has assumed acting chairmanship. Emerson's International Organization course (Gov. 170) has been taken over by Inis L. Claude, Jr., to be assisted by Daniel S. Cheever, assistant professor of Government, and A. Burr Overstrout, visiting lecturer...
Ultimately, the movie rests squarely on the characterization of the Scot. Complete with burr and kilt, fierce and tender by turns, full of brooding and bravura, the role is an actor's dream. Actor Todd makes it come true...
Little Finland has been a burr in a bear's paw. The bear has alternately gone after it with tooth & claw, licked it with honeyed tongue. Before last year's elections, Russia offered the Finns a friendship pact, reduced their reparations debt. The maneuver failed. The Finns trotted off to the polls, returned even fewer Communists to the Diet than they had had before. Last week, on the eve of Finland's presidential election, the bear bared his teeth...
...Burr Tillstrom's first solid job was with a WPA-supported puppet show. "It was terrific," he recalls. "We played everywhere-hospitals, old people's homes, orphanages." But the stirring days faded in 1937. Two years later, Tillstrom was working as a salesclerk when RCA put on a television demonstration in his store. "That did it. The moment I saw TV, I knew it was the one medium made expressly for puppets...