Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Pennsylvania decided late last week that its football team would look awfully silly doing weekly solos on television. So the Quakers folded back into the fold (the National Collegiate Athletic Association), ended their six-week revolt against the new N.C.A.A. television program, and were restored to good (?) standing...
...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...
...confused with Vassar's Daisy chain, this society is an organization of lethargic seniors dedicated to the purpose of being as inactive as possible. There are several underclass exceptions, who by exceptional feats, like spending over six hours a day in the Well snack bar, are accepted to the fold...
...Still outside the fold, and appealing their case to the National Labor Relations Board: the powerful Screen Actors' Guild and Screen Extras' Guild, who insist that they should have jurisdiction over factors in movies made especially...
Keen-eyed readers may have spotted something of Jack's predicament when they read his story. The accompanying Air Force picture showed the dim outline of his hunched shoulders and stooped head as the F-94, afterburner blasting, roared skyward. "No matter," he said later, "I fold easy...