Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fold & the General. The body of Hope's work is nothing less than an index to history, told in one-and two-liners. Back in the '40s, he reported that in their strategy talks, F.D.R. and Churchill wondered: "When and where will we attack the enemy and how will we keep Eleanor out of the crossfire?" F.D.R.'s Fala was "the only dog to be housebroken on the Chicago Tribune." In 1954, Hope had it "on good authority that Senator Joe McCarthy is going to disclose the names of 2,000,000 Communists. He just...
...state that his philosophy should be called "egostatism." Indeed, the Governor cheerfully maintains that what is good for him must perforce be good for Florida. If in the process the former Democrat should find himself the Republicans' vice-presidential choice to bring the South into the fold, he obviously would not mind that either. To that end he grabs every chance to castigate...
...often as for children. One can easily understand why in this elegant, color-illustrated survey of a key period in the toy industry's history, 1860-1914, when the Industrial Revolution brought new techniques to toymaking. Machines could now roll metal into thin sheets, punch out forms, and fold them into the shape of toys that could be sold in greater numbers and at cheaper prices; inner works, such as clockwork miniatures, gave charm and humor to acrobat cyclists, gardeners with watering cans, mothers with prams, even mechanical accordionists who swayed as they played...
...solution outlined by Mosteller's group is two-fold. First, the Houses would buy time on their own consoles nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight for relatively unrestricted undergraduate use. Second, the Faculty would allocate a separate fund, to be administered through the departments, for course work involving greater input and therefore requiring...
According to Dehner, only 500 sophomores out of a class of 800 will participate in Bicker this February. Last year the number was 750. As a result, some clubs will not be able to fill their rolls and will have to draw on their reserve finances or fold. Sensing this, many old grad clubmen have been trying to use some of their influence to keep the clubs alive. No doubt some of the clubs will last indefinitely. Several have huge endowments, larger than many colleges. But running a large house and keeping a squad of servants is becoming more...