Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cries of ticket-hungry students, the Inter-House Dance Committee is hopefully exploring every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
Steinbeck, all of Denmark is at your feet." A customs guard at the border demanded whether Steinbeck carried whiskey (Ans.: "Lots-I live on it"), cigarets (Ans.: "I chain-smoke"), decided: "In your case that's fine, as long as I may have your autograph...
...intention which the company has in mind, they said, is to establish a possible chain of investment buildings, while at the same time helping to meet the demands of average American families for "permanent, post-war homes...
...Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...
...still got it." In Kansas City, a secretary stalked indignantly from a shoe store, announcing that she would not pay $32.50 for a pair of shoes; in Los Angeles a butcher hung out a sign saying that he had refused to buy at the price the packers were asking. Chain stores with a stake in public relations refused to stock up on skyrocketing items...