Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method for distributing football tickets will probably be used next year, ticket manager Frank O. Lunden said yesterday while trying to straighten out the biggest ticket mix-up of the season. He did not elaborate, and Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, could not be reached for comment last night...
...Nuts." After that testimonial, reporters asked if the President seemed eager to get back to work. Said Infantryman Monty, mixing a cavalry metaphor: "He's biting the curb. I think he's eager to resume the reins." Then reporters asked Press Secretary Hagerty to comment on recurring suggestions that the President might resign if he decides not to run again. Said Hagerty: "You can take it in either of two words, or you can take it in one: no or nuts. Does that answer that one?" Cracked Monty: "That's what you call a fast ball...
...Cambridge, the city," wrote John Gunther in Inside U.S.A., "is not what one would expect from photographs of Harvard Yard. Mostly, it's a slum." Today, eight years after Gunther's comment, Cambridge is still mostly a slum. One out of four of the city's homes has no central heating, while an estimated 7500 of the 33,000 dwellings in Cambridge are "seriously deteriorated." The lack of adequate housing and municipal facilities has obviously contributed to the increase of juvenile delinquency in the city. It has also induced many families with young children to move out of Cambridge...
Although the Trustees did not comment on whether the catalogue would be changed next spring, students expressed confidence that the booklet's cover will be modified, contrary to the wishes of the University's new president, Nils Wessel...
...care about his politics one bit," Hemingway went on to say of the Icelandic author, who has taken part in Communist-sponsored peace movements of recent years but has never actually joined the party. The American writer repeated his comment of last year that he would like to see Ezra Pound win the literary honor, but he reaffirmed that he was satisfied by the choice of Laxness...