Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Nov. 15], but it won't do. I made no attempt to "predict the election," a business up to the electorate. I said, on the evidence of what I could see and sense from, where I sat ... that it was going to be close-closer than the country thought. It was. That wasn't "almost-right." It was right. Quite right...
From somewhere in Middle Europe came a fable that might have been lifted from the unpublished works of Aesop the Slave. A tiny rabbit was running out of the Soviet Union as though his life depended on it. He was stopped close to the border by a tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They...
...weeks, tension mounted and rumors grew. Venezuelans began to pray that handsome, tuberculous Lieut. Colonel Mario Vargas would return from his Saranac Lake, N.Y. sickbed. The army liked Vargas. He was also a close friend of both Gallegos and Betancourt. Vargas, people said, would straighten things...
...about 10:30 p.m. the prowler opened the front door, but seeing people in the living room, maintained a casual appearance and walked slowly back to the street, leaving the door open. Barbara Bancroft '51 went to close the door and got her only good look at the youth...
Final word on the program splits the evening's activities between the Harvard Band and a song-and-dance interval staged by the College's close-harmony group, the Krokodileen, the Annex "Cliffe-Riffs," and a Radcliffe dancer, Mildred Blacklock...