Word: chink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started out as a railway worker. Like every other staffer, he always calls Grant "Mr. Grant." (Once he addressed him as "Boss," and Grant exploded: "That reminds me of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Simon Legree.") Editor Ferguson leaves the day-to-day operations to Managing Editor Wallace ("Chink") Lomoe, 56, a capable, hard-driving ex-state editor who came to the Journal as a reporter 25 years ago, is president of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. Chief Editorial Writer Lindsay Hoben, 51, who joined the paper in 1925, runs the five-man staff of editorial writers...
...door. There is a gas pipe on the wall next to the window that at one time had been used for a gas bracket. The pipe had been plugged. I took the plug out and pushed a piece of rubber tubing over the pipe. I put a chink in the tube with a bulldog clip to stop the gas escaping. When they sat in the deck chair with the tube behind them, I took the clip off and let the fumes rise from the back of the deck chair. When they started to be overcome-that's when...
...Georgia, the officially recognized Republican faction took a chink out of Taft's Southern armor in ten district conventions. Results: ten delegates for Ike, one for Taft, one for Warren, one uncommitted. ¶ In Louisiana, where Eisenhower supporters tried to outmaneuver the pro-Taft party leaders, Republicans split wide open and wound up in a whole series of rump sessions. Best pattern that could be drawn out of the post-convention confusion: eight delegates in dispute, two for Taft conceded by Eisenhower forces, five for Ike not disputed but not yet conceded by the Taft...
...account makes it sound. British Brigadier General Colin R. Ballard spelled it all out a quarter-century' ago in his witty and clear-eyed Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln (just re-issued by World; $5). What Scholar Williams has done, with fresher materials at his disposal, is to chink in the gaps, make the story more watertight. In Lincoln and His Generals, Williams does not refight the Civil War any more than he has to to make his point. The assumption that his readers know enough history to orient themselves will please Civil War buffs, even if it leaves...
Judge Medina's character and habits give an effect of virtues and customs that are still called old-fashioned but are beginning to be recognized as worthy of revival. In a cynical age, cynicism has not found one chink in his character to take root in. He positively and quite instinctively believes that manifestations of evil and stupidity are passing phases, whereas God, the Republic as our forefathers dreamed of it, and the family are enduring. He finds no embarrassment in speaking of faith as the fruit of religion...