Word: hopscotching
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...Confused Three. Lack of authority to make even minor decisions slowed the Commission to hopscotch pace. Gusev could not agree with Winant on any point without asking Moscow. Usually he got a Soviet counterproposal which Winant had to stall until he could hear from Washington. In spite of all the machinery set up for collaboration, the final collaborators remained the Big Three's Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin). There were signs of real progress toward concrete agreement (see p. 12). If so, the progress was made outside of the Advisory Commission...
Continuing its series of Sunday afternoon jazz concerts at the Copley Square Hotel's Hopscotch Room, the Harvard Jazz Club will present Frankie Newton. Al Morgan, and Joe Brown this Sunday at 3 o'clock. Newton was heard at two previous jam sessions last summar, and has been leading his band, including letter Young and Eddie Barefield, at various places in New York since then...
When the sun dried a patch of sidewalk, Moscow children played hopscotch. Peasants brought the first pussywillows to the markets. Hothouses dispatched their first onions and radishes to hospitals and children's homes. In the zoo a baby hippopotamus was expected...
...epigrammatic subject matter. Like William Ober's "Murder ex Cathedra," these light and occasionally brilliant pieces are not of the sort which receive permanent resting place in the Widener Treasure Room, but as "occasional" lyrics skillfully integrating form and subject, they make delightful reading. Ormonde de Kay has contributed "Hopscotch," a pleasantly wistful bit of reminiscence, not inappropriately hidden on the last page. Contrasting sharply, Day Lee's "And Then the Hunter's Horn" demonstrates the unfortunate impact of the works of Robert Frost on the immature poet, unacquainted with the matter and form which make the best of Frost...
Said George Bernard Shaw: "Now that we're thoroughly frightened, we'll be all right. Until the British are frightened, they never do anything but play cricket, football, hopscotch and tennis...