Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took his hand and led him toward the analyst in the vestry room. 'The raccoon,' I continued, 'always washes his food before eating. Why not 'raccoon' your mind?... Since then that young man has risen from envelope-sealer for Eastern Steel to the ownership of one of the largest clip joints in Las Vegas! And why? Because he learned to 'raccoon' his mind...
...Nasser's first attempt to clip Naguib's wings eight weeks ago, he had ordered him placed under house arrest. Such arbitrary treatment of a man built up as the public's idol sent hundreds of thousands swarming into the streets of Cairo to protest. Surprised, Nasser put Naguib back in office and settled back to await a more propitious moment...
...promptly ran wild. It smashed into the State Council, grabbed Abdel el Sanhouri, Egypt's Chief Justice, who is rumored to be a Naguib supporter, and beat him badly. On hearing the news, National Guidance Minister Major Salem, a Nasser man, drove at a 70-mile-an-hour clip to the court, climbed atop a truck and shouted to the mob: "For God's sake, do not act like this! Do you want the British to walk in?" "The people have already shown their feelings enough," said the Interior Ministry, and the government banned further demonstrations. Troops...
...able to type. Each spring, Margaret and her assistants go on talent-scouting trips to nearby women's colleges to interview interested applicants. The new trainees work the first three weeks as office girls, followed by a few weeks in such departments as the morgue, letters and the clip desk (clipping New York and out-of-town newspapers). The trainee then attends a four-week course, directed by an experienced TIME researcher, studying the rudiments of editorial research for TIME before she is assigned to a department...
Behind this restatement of basic principle made by Dwight Eisenhower at his news conference '(see above) lies a developing theory of how the Administration should deal with Joe McCarthy. It will not try to clip an essential congressional right: examination of Government servants at any level of authority. But it will resist the abuse of this power by any congressional effort to horn in on the running of the Executive Branch...