Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next morning, an hour when sleepy customs officials find it easy to look the other way. Without benefit of export licenses, food has found its way into the wicker baskets of the returning women, and their demijohns hold cooking oil instead of wine. Back in Martinique, easygoing inspectors hurriedly chalk their O.K.s on the baskets. In a few minutes the traffickers have sold their smuggled goods...
...degree to which the "artist" is subjected today by lovers of the arts such as Connolly himself. A glaring spotlight, directed by dogmatic esthetes, assures the artist of his isolation and triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...
...expiate this sense of sin Oppenheimer threw himself into the campaign for international atomic regulation. He was appointed to a seven-man board (chairman: David Lilienthal) to suggest U.S. policy on the future of atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only...
Dave Aloian dove over the chalk for the first Winthrop score. The second Puritan tally was made from their own 30 yard line, with Harvey Thayer escorted by his blockers through the Dudley defense for 70 yards to enter the end zone. Bob Cameron ran over the last two puritan touchdowns...
...smart money went down the drain at Ithaca Saturday, but at least the chalk players who backed the Band were rewarded. "Does your band always play like that?" one awed Cornellian said after the "best in the business" had finished its between-halves Big Red medely...