Word: fending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course the men in charge have their reasons. In the Harvardevens incident of only this month, one man said, "dogs should not be running around kissing children." That certainly cannot be denied, but the only children in the Houses belong to the Housemasters, and they should be able to fend for themselves. Picture a bevy of pet flamingoes gambolling in the Lowell quadraugle, and then ask yourself if the ruling should stay. Only one answer is possible. Picture the physics concentrator taking a moment off from his studies to pat his dachshund, and think again. Let us hope that...
...short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse thieves. With feet bound in leaves, to make no tracks, the children do the villains out of their horses, their boots...
...Verdoux (United Artists), Charles Spencer Chaplin's first film since The Great Dictator (1940), is the story of a middle-aged French bank clerk who loses his job during a depression. Tenderly devoted to his invalid wife, his little boy, and their security, and disastrously ill-equipped to fend for them in a prolapsed economy, he nevertheless manages to set up in business for himself. The business: murder...
Recently Smokey made for the lunch basket of Angler Richard Delaney, and Delaney tried to fend him off. Smokey promptly pushed the fisherman into the river. Delaney sued, and last week an Evesham judge awarded him ?37 75 damages. But Evesham's mayor and corporation were loyal to the end. "Why should we sack Smokey?" they said. "He's a nice old fellow...
...vocal brawn in an attempt to twist fissionable uranium into a political crowbar. Contesting the appointment of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the new Atomic Energy Commission, McKellar is reviving an old political battle as significant to the problem of peacetime atomicenergy development as an Ozark blood-fend...