Word: closers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Across the U.S. the politicians and pundits studied the tea leaves of the 1958 elections and forecast the national future. If there was a consensus, it was that the nation has veered to the left after six years of steering down the middle of the road. Yet closer, subsurface examination of the election results raises doubt about that consensus; indeed there is strong evidence that the American voter intended to cast his ballot for moderation...
...advantages of the House system are submerged and taken for granted in Cambridge, but in Princeton there is genuine need to bring together the social and academic life, or rather to bring some academic life into the social world. And because of the clubs, it appears desirable to bring closer together also the dining hall and the bedroom...
...have to coordinate a surprise attack against the West's military complex on three continents, would simultaneously have to hit targets twelve minutes away in Europe, 120 minutes away in North Africa, twelve hours and more away in the U.S. Until the day when intercontinental missiles are much closer to perfection, the Russians cannot surprise all these, plus bases in Greenland and Canada, and the floating airfields of the Sixth and Seventh Fleets. The first bases to be hit would signal the alarm. The U.S. would certainly be able to devastate the vitals of the Soviet Union with...
...California (4-2)-dumped Oregon 23-6 to stay unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference play, edge closer to a spot in the Rose Bowl New Year...
...Coop argued that selling liquor might "cast reflection not only upon the Society but the University community as a whole." This may well be, but such prudery is rather out of place in the latitudinarian atmosphere of Cambridge. Closer to the real point was the statement that dispensing redeye to the populace might lead to "untoward incidents...