Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke out at Potsdam, the Paris meeting has been the only crisis created by the West, the only time anti-Communism has taken the ball. The rest of the time the West has been waiting-like poor old Benes in Prague-and every day of waiting the cat creeps closer...
However I am sure that any returning member of the press or the military service . . . would come very much closer to the outlook presented in the foregoing than Professor Pound's. John B. Dompsey...
...view of present circumstances the consensus of polo opinion feels that the Crimson did well enough, at Yale for its first game. The Elis led at the end of the first two chukkers, 18 to 0, while in the last two the score was much closer, 5 to 4. "Indoor polo is a higher scoring game than outdoor," players point out. An inflated leather ball, about the size of a grapefruit, is used instead of the usual willow root variety, which is harder to drive. This means scoring...
Benjamin Sills, Chairman of the Cambridge Progressive Citizens of America, reported that 50,000 signatures were required to place a candidate's name on the ballot. Cambridge's quota is 10,000 and Sills urged closer cooperation between the Committee and the PCA. Canvassing for signatures to provide delegates to the convention will get underway within a week or ten days...
...disclosed that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship and become a "citizen of the world." He was living over a pigsty, working as a bricklayer for a German construction company. Said he: "Now that I am no longer allied with [national interests] ... I feel I can come closer to the true spirit...