Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baffled inspector passed on his problem to Dublin, and at week's end a representative from the Dail Eireann was hurrying westward. "It's serious enough," he told newsmen, "for there isn't a man on the peninsula who doesn't believe in the little people. But I think if we build the fence around the rath, it might satisfy everyone." A second civil servant was not so sure. "It's bad enough giving the fairies official recognition," he grumbled. "The next thing, they'll be coming in here looking for pensions...
Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress. "The source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...from Psi, isn't he? They won the I. F. sing tonight, I heard. That was really...
...know--any more vodka in the lounge, Joe?--this isn't a bad place. Seems to me like the IDC doesn't have any power over independents any more; it's all centered in the West Quad council. Great dance we had here last week...
...only quarrel one can have with this analysis is that they have misrepresented, as did eleven Princeton seniors in The Unsilent Generation (And isn't this silence bit getting confusing now?), the aspirations of their contemporaties. The Editor people say we're silent and inward-directed; the Princeton people, whom they cite with pride, are unsilent and inward-directed. Every-body else is, presumably at least, inward-directed, and all of us are different from our fathers, they...