Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Marion LeRoy Burton of the University of Michigan told a convocation: "You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble." TIME carried his remarks in the March 24 issue, with a footnote recalling that Hamlet had berated his young contemporaries in Elsinore with the words: "You jig, you amble...
...after switching to his father's bank, he started a proxy fight to wrest Freeport's control away from a management he thought slipshod. Young Whitney, heir to an estimated $100 million fortune, had taken a $15-a-week "buzzer boy" job at Lee, Higginson rather than loaf. At the suggestion of his department boss, 25-year-old Whitney plunked a $500,000 stake into Williams' fight, enabled him to win the battle. Williams has run the company ever since, but says: "I always take all major decisions to Jock...
...figure of Mrs. Purdy, president of the Tuesday Club of Pottawattamie, Ind. It was she who had persuaded the colonel to organize a Woman's League for Democratic Action among the Okinawan ladies, and to suggest model menus for the league's meetings (chicken aspic and salmon loaf garnished with water cress, fruit compote and other delicacies...
Communism last week dropped a crumb on India's bare table, and ran away with a loaf of propaganda. Prime Minister Nehru told an applauding India Parliament that 50,000 tons of wheat were on the way from Russia. This is a paltry half of the U.S. wheat going to India monthly through normal trade, but Nehru did not say so. This week the long-delayed India wheat bills, providing for 2,000,000 tons of wheat on a loan basis, are expected to come up before Congress. Nehru announced that India was ready & willing to accept the loan...
...Gentle People. In Louisiana, Mo., the proprietor of the Wahl Hotel took an ad in the Press-Journal: "During the 25 years that our hotel has been loafing headquarters, there never was a time that I did not loaf with you and treat you as a guest. This loafing has now advanced to a point where it is ruining my business! This is my way of asking your cooperation -saying Goodbye to all of you, my loafer friends-with respect...