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...board of "expert" umpires will preside over the game to step in if a delegation acts in a manner which the board considers actually improbable. The umpires may also interject hypothetical events, such as a Middle-East crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. to Host Mock International Meeting | 4/24/1959 | See Source »

...philosophy is to disfranchise unions, then there is no answer but to start a labor party." The closed shop, the union boss snapped, "involves no coercion. It is simply an exercise of our right not to work with a man who is not in a union." Sligh managed to interject: "Do you believe in segregation?" Meany replied: "This is not segregation." Persisted Sligh: "Then it is discrimination." Retorted Meany: "We belong to a union on exactly the same basis as you belong to the N.A.M." Sligh said: "It's not the same thing. In a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Guest in the House | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Desperate Hours, as a matter of fact, is quite complex throughout. William Wyler's direction has decorated the plot with small incidents and byplay which illuminate the characters but do not slow down the speed with which the picture races to its climax. Nor does Wyler ever stop to interject some sort of vague message or a commentary on such topics as police corruption. There is a statement about that, but it has its function in the story. And although the film does not strain for a message, it still has a point: a man's greatest dignity comes from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Desperate Hours | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...will wear a look of complete boredom while Europe is the topic, being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question such as, "Has England got rid of that awful Chamberlain yet?' In the ensuing astonishment someone is bound to ask, "What! Haven't you been across?" It is now that you apply the clincher, the beauty of this ploy being the two possible routes of denouement...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and Gene R. Kearney, S | Title: Globemanship: II | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

Sapers immediately raised his hand to interject a "point of information." He moved to add the words "free and" to "uncoerced body of students," and suggested explaining who Grenville Clark was. Cole pointed out that a quote requires marks with added words in brackets. "Oh that's how you do it," Sandler said, and laughed. The changes were made and the resolution passed at 8:30 p.m., twelve votes to one, with three abstentions...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

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