Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large body of the class gives way to sloth. Admittedly, a senior who plans to see his four years through to the end is going to have to hustle around a little getting tickets and hotel reservations for his relatives. Too, the whole affair isn't exactly for free...
...Prerogative. Doughty Sir Thomas himself had no intention of disappointing anyone. Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool...
...holdings in the Central to Alleghany Corp., putting Alleghany's C. & 0. voting power in trust to an outsider, and resigning his board chairmanship of the C. & O. Thus, unless the ICC found some legal barrier, Young would be out of the C. & O. and free to use I.D.S. to buy up to 10% of Central stock, thereby strengthening a controlling interest he could exercise...
...Criminal Mind. In Paris, police reported that someone broke into the Van Craeyenest Circus and stole a lion. In Oakland, Calif., Bert W. Harberg was arrested on charges of selling a government-owned bridge. In Sturgis, Ky., residents enjoyed one free parking space because someone stole a parking meter from Adams Street...
...badly needed. It is needed so badly that President Truman cannot afford to match his stubbornness and pride with that of the opposition. If any one thing is obvious from the first quarter of the 81st Congress, it is that the Fair Deal is going to get no free ride. Truman can do much by astute juggling; the labor bill should be the first item on the program...