Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named to the All-Ivy League team, the U.P. All-Eastern team, and the sports writers' All-Eastern team, was followed in the balloting by quarterback Peter Van of Army, passing ace Richard Carr of Columbia, and end Henry Lemire from Holy Cross. Crimson fullback John Culver received honorable mention for the award...
...with some other minor bows to the go-percenters, the convention passed the resolution and re-elected Kline. Farm Bureau leaders thought it was a notable show of unity. Said one: "It's hard enough for a corn man and a wheat man to get along, not to mention the difference of, say, a hog man and a cotton...
...what to do about it? You fail to mention the obvious way . . . Stop smoking...
...four fears-fear of depression; fear of Communism; fear of ourselves; fear, if you please, of freedom itself." Stevenson did not name Senator McCarthy during an obvious attack on Mc-Carthyism, in which, he charged, "the Bill of Rights is besieged, ancient liberties infringed." He did, however, mention Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "the chief law-enforcement officer of the nation, the very embodiment of our concept of justice, [who] has even imputed disloyalty or Communist sympathy to a former President while our allies . . . listen in bewilderment and disgust...
...radar sets off a series of alarms-and certain words disappear forever from certain shows. Thus, on Philip Morris' I Love Lucy or the Camel News Caravan no one is ever referred to as "lucky." And on Lucky Strike shows there is never any mention of camels or caravans, of hoards of old gold, or of chesterfield sofas or overcoats. An adman for Chesterfield recently rewrote the lyrics of the show tune, Blue Room, for Singer Perry Como. The offending line read: "I can smoke my pipe away...