Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the London Foreign Ministers' Conference breakup, Ernest Bevin said: "We have no aim . . . to divide the world [But] we cannot go on as we have been going on. . . . We have hoped against hope that four-power collaboration would work. . . . We shall close no doors...
Wrestling his first bout of the year, Bob Claflin walked away with the 175-pound class with a 4 to 2 decision over Ernest Koehler, as 191-pound captain Pete Fuller followed up with a 6 to 2 decision over Jim Burton...
...Middle Men. Most of these big names were names of the '20s; what of the strong men of the '30s? Ernest Hemingway, perfectionist in style and poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published...
...deadline for nominating by petition has been pushed back from 10 o'clock last night to 6 o'clock tomorrow night by Ernest M. Howell '47, chairman of the Council's Election Procedures Committee. Petitions must bear 25 names, with each member of the Class of 1948 eligible to sign for only one candidate. Seven such petitions are now in Howell's hands...
...With Every Nerve." At London, Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin summed up the Western position. He said: "If a settlement is to be blocked every time we try, we cannot go on forever with chaos in Europe as it is now. ... I shall strive with every nerve and every effort to get a politically united Germany. . . . But if in the end peace is denied, then surely you cannot expect us at this stage to stand still with Western Europe in chaos and not do anything...