Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Senators accepted only a small flake from the golden tablet of Paul Douglas. They voted down two amendments he had sponsored, but did cut excises on household appliances. Then, by a 76-to-8 vote, the Senate passed the billion-dollar excise tax reduction bill substantially as it had been reported by Eugene Millikin's Finance Committee. The measure then went to a House-Senate conference committee for final shaping...
Gosh, it was good to be in a place where winter was really winter, Vag thought to himself. Back in Cambridge there hadn't been a flake of snow all fall, and Christmas at home had been more like spring. But New Year's at Lake Placid was different, like in the old days further south when the polar ice cap had not started to shrink...
Human nature being less than soap flake pure, however, the Daily Princetonian is forced to make one or two announcements of honor code violations each year. It prints simply, "Mr. X and Mr. Y have been removed from Princeton College for violation of the honor system." Names are never made public...
Associate Dean Robert Watson '37 is scheduled to talk to undergraduates about the College's own grants: the Shaw, Knox, Tower, Flake, Sheldon, and Lionel de Jersey fellowships...
...become a Tito if only the West is gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds the Stalinite empire so rigidly together might begin to flake away." The New Statesman inhabits a pink cloud all its own, but on this particular issue there were some surprising echoes to the left & right in Britain...