Word: lateness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dinner. A typically breathless campaign day for Chamberlain began at 7 o'clock one morning last week, found him still going hard in the Genesee County town of Grand Blanc at 7 that night. He suddenly realized that he was already go minutes late for a dinner date with his wife Charlotte, even then waiting for him in front of the Durant Hotel, in nearby Flint. Chamberlain leaped into his red-white-and-blue Chevrolet station wagon, which he uses along with his trailer, and sped toward Flint at 60 m.p.h. His pace had been exhausting, but Chuck Chamberlain...
...longer than British Columbians care to admit, trapping, timber and gold were enough to satisfy most of the immigrants. As late as 1939, the province had only two inhabitants per square mile of territory. The road system was primitive, the railroads-except for the transcontinental lines-a hoary joke. "You've got the scenery, you've got the timber," went an old refrain, "but I'm going East where the money...
...Auburn (3-0-1)-flawed its 17-game winning streak when Georgia Tech threw up a stout defense and managed a late score to gain...
Then he took off after another oracle, the late Socialist Harold Laski, who for years taught political science at the University of London. Laski, he charged, had no knowledge of how things operate in human affairs. "Laski, who could not ride a bicycle, said pretentiously and characteristically that if he only had the theory of bicycle riding explained to him, he would be able to ride it. The truth is quite simple, and has nothing to do with theory...
Although the students were scheduled to arrive this fall, "only half of them had even applied for U.S. visas by the end of September," according to Richard E. Pipes, Director of the Russian Research Center. They probably wil not arrive until sometime late in December or early in January, he said...