Word: herring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pondleton Herring, associate professor of Government, tutor in the Department of Government, and secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration, has been granted a leave of absence for one year beginning July 1, Dean Buck announced Tuesday. He will become an executive associate of the Carnegie Corporation at that time...
...Argument? In Dillon, S.C., Harmon Herring, fresh from a touch-&-go wrestling match with a wildcat (which he finally throttled), announced authoritatively that no man can lick his weight in wildcats...
...Blue Book blast at Perón had apparently had little effect on the voting. Argentines, resentful of previous advice from abroad, did not welcome the latest installment with vivas. But neither did they let Perón use it as a red herring. The chief issue remained Perón's fitness to be President...
...Shoving and pushing, and pushed and shoved, a dishonoured bag of bones about London, or carted like a herring in a box through tunnels in the clay beneath it, as I bump my head in an omnibus, or hang, half-suffocated, from a greasy strap in the Underground, I dream, like other Idealists and Saints and Social Thinkers, of a better world than this, a world that might be, a City of Heaven brought down at last to earth...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...