Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yugoslav foreign minister Stanoje Simie signed without comment, but handed a note to the French Foreign Ministry asserting that his government was "roundly disturbed" that Yugoslav territorial proposals "have not been taken into consideration...
TIME accuses me of "leaning over backward so far," apropos of the royal wedding rumours, that I "reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate." This apparently refers to my statement that I did not (as you quote it) "care a damn" if Prince Philip married Princess Elizabeth. This comment is unfair to Billingsgate and to me. In so far as Billingsgate fish-market porters use oaths at all, they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase...
Opening its season with a clash on foreign soil, the fencing team captured a 17 to 10 victory from Amherst College Saturday and evoked a "did better than I expected" comment from Coach Rene Peroy...
Clifton Fadiman could not be reached last night to comment on McKellar's chances for a regular berth on Information Please...
...mistaken for Nijinsky on a hardwood floor, but he makes baskets, and his cohorts seem to have learned the knack of how to feed him in the pivot position. Neither Barclay nor George Hauptfuhrer, who will probably play Morgenthaler if the Varsity uses a man-to-man defense, would comment yesterday on the Harvard strategy of guarding the Huge Man, but defensive maneuvers have been worked out in practice sessions...