Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twilight of tension . . . that might last a generation and in the end mean peace or war . . . However, if this Army is to prevent war, it must be made part of a stable long-range military policy-a policy as prolonged as the period of tension ... If we are to hop, skip and jump every time a paper is rustled east of the Elbe, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at [the Russians'] feet while they call the tune...
...fact, all the activities the new Union Committee drums up to fill the current vacuum will hop up future House programs. Recent House recruits haven't exactly been social drones, but they have gawked at the opulence of House facilities. There just hasn't been anything like that in the Yard. Obviously the Union can't suddenly be transformed into a full-blown freshman House, for although the men in the Yard deserve everything the Committee can get for them, the budget doesn't allow for a complete refurnishing job on the Union. But there is plenty of space...
News on the Run. There were few such snafus aboard the campaign specials that roamed the U.S. last week. But even without them, the specials were no gravy trains to the working press. Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch...
Remarks like that struck sparks from ABC's President Mark Woods, whose efforts to build network TV will give his company an insatiable appetite for films. The movies, said Woods, have nothing to fear from TV-if they hop on the bandwagon in time. That means turning out films especially for the living room at prices televisers can afford to pay. Then Woods blandly added what sounded like an ultimatum: "If the motion pictures are unwilling to enter this new industry on this basis, then my company is most certainly prepared...
...present ten piece band is now established within the Collegiate circle, having played at Dunster House during the Columbia football weekend and at two Army dances, the Officers' Ball and the Cadet Hop, during the Army weekend...