Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing of this character will happen under Mr. Conant. There will be no harassment of professors for engaging in open and legal meetings. There will be no apparatus of inquiry and "closer watch." The harm done by the effort necessary to discover even a single clan-destine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit. To go beyond that by searching for "reasonable grounds" concerning "loyalty," would still more disrupt Harvard or any free university...
Even so, Harry Truman told the correspondents, things were not quite so exasperating as they had been even a few months ago. "We are closer to world peace now than at any time in the last three years." he said soberly. Overseas, another responsible voice spoke with the same measured optimism (see INTERNATIONAL...
...object of penny-pitching is, like in most competitive contests, to win. This is done by prepelling a penny through the air and/or along the pavement in such a manner that the coin comes to rest closer to a wall (at which the competitors are presumably aiming) than the coppers thrown by the other contestants...
...European entries had variety and vigor too. France's Ossipe Zadkine contributed Menades-fragmentary fleeing figures that seemed closer to cubist painting than to most sculpture. Russian-born Jacques Lipchitz, who now lives in Greenwich Village, submitted Sacrifice, a handsomely ugly bronze of a man knifing a rooster; the disturbing thing about Sacrifice was that, stared at a while, the man began to look like a rooster, the rooster like...
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan promptly quit in protest; Chief of Naval Operations Denfield was kicked into a fleet command when he complained. The new Secretary of the Navy was chosen from a civilian job in which "he never got any closer to the Navy than a row-boat." And there was a wave of mutterings in Congress about the "high-handedness" of Secretary Johnson's move. The forthcoming test is a result of this Congressional pressure...