Word: club
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inner-circle businessmen who gathered at St. Louis' plush Racquet Club grumbled bitterly about Symington's "sellout" to labor, and to this day some of them remain convinced that his romance with U.E.W. was a bit of cynical expediency, however well it may have worked for Emerson Electric. The accusation overlooks Symington's authentic streak of respect for labor, which stems from his grimy days as a chipper and moulder in his uncle's foundry. Over the years, Symington has won the warm respect and esteem of the Electrical Workers' high-voltage President James Carey...
...Algerian rebels, and when one member of the French Assembly dramatically announced that assassins had crossed the Pyrenees, eager to put a few holes in Frenchmen who were considered soft on Algeria. So many French politicians had received assassination threats that there was joking about a "Condemned-to-Death Club." One of its charter members would undoubtedly be left-wing Senator François Mitterrand, 43, a fervid anti-Gaullist and outspoken proponent of a negotiated peace in Algeria...
...finished her program after the bomb scare was pronounced a hoax. After a thunderous ovation, Callas greeted Harry S. Truman with a courtly "I am honored," made her manners to Kansas Governor George Docking, who was also in the audience, even attended a post-concert party at the River Club where she danced with local millionaires and nibbled caviar snacks, an "almost blue" filet mignon and the "Delice Callas" dessert (peppermint ice cream, brandy-flavored chocolate, meringue, whipped cream, pistachio nuts...
...social privileges at the quadrangle, says Lippincott, will be "roughly comparable to those on Prospect Street." While membership in the new quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...
...Club vice-president Warren Young feels that the team can certainly match the opposition in rugby experience, and probably also in power. Two new men, freshman Bob Downing at outisde center and Dick McGugan at prop, round out an already powerful group, and give the Crimson its best fall squad in years...