Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there isn't a wastepaper basket available, use your handbag." This is a saying which is so common that an Annex student can occasionally be seen carrying two or three handbags at the same time...
Dunster's kitchen is off the central system, but it doesn't make much difference so far as food is concerned. The food is certainly no worse than that of the other Houses, but it isn't any better. At times, furthermore, long waits for various courses smell suspiciously of inefficiency. Except for the protracted serving of coffee and toast at breakfast the dining hall loses down tightly tightly on the appointed hour...
...outburst of post-war maturity and frugality among the younger Americans carries some conditions. Those who drank pink champagne on the decks of the Normandie in '39 will tell you it isn't the same anymore. They are right. Their studied gaiety and extravagance has been replaced by a new desire to learn and appreciate, and, even more important, to leave a good impression of the United States with the European people...
...next obstacle will be Georgia's Richard Russell (in the two Florida votes May 6 and May 27) and Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson (in Oregon May 16). Kefauver's prospects are (in this respect only) somewhat like that of a professional burglar: a good average isn't enough-he has to win every time...
...There isn't a doubt in my mind that Russia intends an invasion of Turkey and the seizure of the Black Sea Straits to the Mediterranean. Unless Russia is faced with an iron fist and strong language, another war is in the making. Only one language do they understand-'How many divisions have...