Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ourselves now, will have less serious consequences than not sending them. This is the only fair and frank way of discussing the issue. Instead, Mr. Stimson resorts to a cheap trick of distortion. He calls the proposed ban a "shackle." By this philosophy, the Constitution is a suffocating strait-jacket instead of a charter of freedom...
...Wodehouse at the end of October. Wodehouse was wearing grey flannels, a tweed jacket. Asked if there was anything he wanted, P. G. said: "You know I write. Well, I find it difficult to write in a room with 60 other people. Could you arrange to get me a room alone?" The head of the prison said it could be arranged...
...FEELS always a pardonable reluctance to agree with a publisher's blurb; but it is impossible to deny the truth of the dust jacket's statement that the New Yorker publishes the best prose fiction in America and that a splendid sampling of that fiction has been brought together to make this book. A warning, at this point: the New Yorker's prose style, a unique melancholy compounded out of many samples over a period of not quite sixteen years, is not very much in evidence in this collection. The witty, nostalgic, acid manner of the "Talk of the Town...
There, one night last week, Ralph Barnes drove out over winding mountain roads to a military airport. On a moonlit field, surrounded by towering hills, he stuffed his big frame into a buoyant flying jacket* and crawled into the belly of a British bomber. The plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead...
Biggest obstacle to the spread of Progressive Education has been college entrance requirements. Progressives claim that these requirements: 1) keep high-school curricula in a strait jacket; 2) are unfair to the five out of six high-school students who never go to college. Because colleges insisted that students could not cope with college unless they had prescribed doses of mathematics and foreign languages, P. E. A. eight years ago made U. S. colleges a sporting proposition: let them admit students without these requirements and see what happened...