Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, after he addressed the C.I.O. convention at Atlantic City last week, many a politico edged a little closer. When C.I.O. President Philip Murray said: "I would like you to know that every man & woman in this convention is your friend," hundreds in the hall decided that he really meant: "Eisenhower for President." And when the General addressed a group of New York business leaders that evening, it was possible to say that he was acting like a candidate at last. Said he: "All your brains and wealth cannot produce a single bushel of corn without hands...
...chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
Massachusetts Maritime Academy brought a band and at least 1000 leather-lunged supporters to meet the Jayvees Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, but the noise couldn't drown out the strains of Crimson victory in the nearby stadium, or the 39-0 triumph closer to hand. Someone doubtless forgot to pack the team with the instruments...
Even when turn-of-the-century artists tried to get the dramatic realism of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky into painting, none got much closer than Painter Ilya Repin's stagy Ivan the Terrible...
Formed last summer by a group of thirty M.I.T. students and University graduates studying in the Graduate School of Design, the Council plans to bring the students of city planning into closer relation to the actual planning problems in Boston...