Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, with no such backlog, was having a hard time breaking even. The Government pays the White House staff and servants, but does not feed them. Bess Truman tried cutting the staff (which runs between 25 and 30), gave up because the housework didn't get done. Feeding the help, plus the family and friends, meant that Truman must pay for about 2,000 meals a month. In the Roosevelt era the monthly food bill sometimes soared to $7,000; Bess Truman has cut it to about $2,000. On quiet nights with the family, Harry Truman often...
...delegates in & out of his personal suite, beamed on their cautious handshakes, protected them jealously from the press. He had also personally drafted the agenda of the conference and the armistice preamble, which one Israeli delegate called "a brilliant piece of statesmanship." At week's end, Bunche, still hard at work, was leaving the optimism to his aides. Cried one of them: "I expect to be on my way to Geneva by the middle of next week." Said Bunche: "We still have the most difficult hurdles to take...
...second thought, maybe the old-paper drive is just the place for Harvard examination papers. That is, to judge by the quality of the writing. The sort of English that characterizes most examinations ought to make even the most hard-bitten English A instructors shriek with shame. The time pressure inherent in the examination system causes a good bit of the poor writing, but at least some of it is due to carelessness. Authors of flagrant examples of careless writing--grotesque grammar, bizarre vocabulary, murky syntax-- should be reported without compunction to the Faculty Committee on the Use of English...
...dawn broke over the Arena yesterday, a hardy bunch of Kirkland and Dunster hockey players were hard at work playing a game. About the time alarms began to ring in the Houses Dunster was ahead 4 to 2. And as the average man was trying to coordinate mind and body enough to get out of bed, the game twitched violently and lay over dead, with Kirkland...
Dixiecrats have their own philosophical objections to any program that would seek to end segregated education. Less hidebound Southerners propound the familiar slow-and-easy thesis. The South desperately wants hard cash, but within its existing "cultural framework." The North wants to test the southern devotion to principle: can the South refuse federal aid on the segregation issue? Perhaps Jim Crow in education may prove too expensive a luxury...