Word: deed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one man need by expended. Concealing himself in the nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
...Most notable response: asked for $1,000,000 in 1940 to help buy up the deed of the opera house, 166,000 opera lovers from coast to coast topped the amount...
...looking menacing and mysterious. "Very interesting suggestion." Obviously, Valentine hoped to scare price raisers by threatening a price rollback. But it didn't quite come off-it only made clear that, at the moment, Valentine wanted to achieve by threat what he was not ready to achieve by deed...
...mind." He had, he said, received the most "scrupulously fair treatment" by the FBI and by the courts- treatment he would never have got "in the Soviet Union or any of the countries dominated by it." He was concerned over those who had been "besmirched by my deed-my family, my friends, my country . . ." He said: "There is a puny inadequacy to any words telling how deep and horrible is my remorse...
Hennes, normally a very mild-mannered person, was deeply touched by the deed of his friends. When asked for comment last night, he said only one word...