Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Porterfield talked fast. After 20 minutes of heavy breathing the cops relented, decided not to throw him in jail for trespassing. The warriors returned to the armory and turned in their weapons. Back at Peoples Drug next day, the food department's most highly publicized member groaned: "Oh, Lord, it was just a routine problem. We didn't mean anything bad by it, honest...
...Baseball is over," said a Reuters teletypist to a U.N. staff member in a washroom at Flushing Meadows. "We are all making bets on who wins in the election, and on what ballot. Want to come into the pool...
...press conference, Vishinsky explained why he considered Yugoslavia's candidacy part of a "sinister underhand design." Article 23 of the U.N. Charter, he pointed out, required that nonpermanent Security Council members be elected "with due regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement,"claimed Vishinsky, this article in practice bound the Assembly to accept the nominees chosen by each regional group; i.e., a caucus of Latin American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia...
...case of the Commissioner of Agriculture is the best example of his poor judgment; an experienced executive was replaced by a grocery salesman from Fitchburg who got the job for getting Curley in the Grange and for making him an honorary member of the Mashpeo Indian tribe. Payson Smith, such a noted educator that Harvard hired him on the spot, was dismissed as Commissioner of Education in favor of a small-town Superintendent of Schools. Thomas H. Green, to whom Curley himself once referred to as one of "the James brothers" was made head of the Civil Service. Case workers...
...amazing fact that a concert of the relatively obscure violincello sonatas of Beethoven could pack Sanders Theater, but pack it did Wednesday night. An audience so large that many were standing along the back walls heard Bruce Simonds, dean of the Yale Music School, and George Brown, a member of that school's faculty, play three of Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello and 12 Variations on a Theme by Mozart...