Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea is really a simple and relatively practical one. It consists merely of skimming the cream form the Pentagonal League and the New England League, tossing in a few strong independents, and forming a more evenly-balanced loop of top teams. The point is to dispose of sextets of the calibre of M.I.T., Tufts, American International, and others which, over a long period of years, have consistently been defeated by phenomenal scores and have settled to the bottom of the New England circuit...
From Seattle to Miami, every coffee spot has its mid-morning knots of wind-jamming men, its gaggle of gossiping women. In Chicago, policemen complain that Loop traffic is all but halted between 9:45 and 10 by swarming office workers out for the morning cup. In Washington, Ohio's Representative George Bender grumbled: "The Government buildings at coffee hour turn into skeletons. They look like recess time at school. The boys & girls dash off for coffee as if rehearsing for fire drill...
...bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...
Another factor inhibiting action against the mainland of China is that it is not included in anybody's conception of the free world's citadel, or perimeter, or loop. In other words, the loops do not keep the enemy out; they keep the forces of the free world...
...allies, however, have the power - if they have the will - to move forward and build up the strength and resolution of the anti-Communist world. Who can draw a loop around that world? It runs up to the Iron Curtain. It runs behind the Iron Curtain. Scores of millions belong to it in Poland and in Hungary, in China and in Russia. All of them are potential allies. All of them are opportunities...