Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie snapped: "I say to him, in all seriousness, that if he, as keynoter of the Republican Party, attempts to put the Republican Party on record as saying what is going on in Europe is none of our busi ness, then we might as well fold up." Minnesota's Republicans forthwith presented Mr. Willkie with his first delegates. ^ Wrote Editor Felix Morley in the Washington Post: "Neutrality has no meaning when such a merciless military machine is in full operation. . . . No country can possibly be indifferent ... all those not actually at war, or poised to strike at the strategic...
Heresy's chief weakness is that it begets further heresies. Last week the heretical Trotskyites read their own heretics out of the fold. Schism started when orthodox Russian Communists invaded Poland and Finland. Schachtmanites declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper...
First definite signs of the long-rumored fold-up came when the paper failed to appear at its regular time a week ago yesterday. Most recent, however, was the rejection by the board of an advertisement from the Dramatic Club early this week...
...delicate work of suturing, or sewing up, begins. . . . The surgeon weaves the suture neatly around the base of the [sterilized] appendix stump so that it may be drawn closed in much the same manner you would close a tobacco sack. Next he will fold in the end of the appendix with a cross-stitch on top of it so there will be nothing left to cause trouble, such as adhesions...
Efficiency Expert Guy T. Viskniskki swept down on Gary Bok's Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger office last November like a wolf on the fold. Shortly thereafter towels from one of three racks disappeared from a Ledger washroom, but Expert Viskniskki denied it was any of his doing (TIME, Jan. 15). Last week unhappy Ledger newsmen to the tune of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, were singing under their breath...