Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard men who have been looking forward to breaking up the Yale rally this Harvard-Yale weekend had better make new plans for Friday night, because there just isn't going to be any rally. Damage done to the city of New Haven when a parade of beer-soaked Yalies got out of hand during Pre-Cornell festivities prompted the college to issue a ban on all football rallies this year...
...innocence of any provocation." Molotov was a stickler for procedure. His favorite word was: "Nyet" ("No"), which Byrnes heard so often "I almost accept it as part of my own language. He can say in English, 'I agree,' but so seldom does he agree that his pronunciation isn't very good...
...also began passing out buttons ("I Like Ike") and got all tangled up in the political doubletalk of the week: "We want to keep away from any implication that he is a candidate. Though he hasn't said he won't be, he definitely has said he isn't." In New Haven, barnstorming Henry Wallace back-patted Ike as a "singularly enlightened man," predicted that he could win the presidency on either ticket, would carry all but nine states if he teamed up with Harold Stassen...
Manhattan's Café Society Downtown isn't the first place Nellie has crowded with admirers. People have been listening to her ever since she was eight, when she played the organ in the Baptist Church in her home town of Lake Charles...
High Button Shoes (book by Stephen Longstreet; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...