Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Schulberg: "The cocktail party is America's favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses...
...much as they can about America and American life in six weeks. An outsider visiting the school needs only a short time to discover how unusual it is in its mutual enthusiasm, the close relationship between its faculty and students, and the tremendously effective informality of its educational method...
...yesterday's regatta opening, clerk of course Bill Dowd found it necessary to change the method of picking finalists when it became evident that the entries in a scheduled third heat had dropped out. Two heats were rowed and the top men in each--instead of only the winner--qualified for the final...
...necessary or even proper to answer, and thus render legitimate, such an obvious bit of name-calling. I do think it unfortunate that a person of Walker's intelligence should think it possible in a Harvard publication to pin a label on his opponents and thereby dispense with the method, more customary in a University, of rationally discussing diverse viewpoints on the basis of their merits alone. Harry A. Mendelsohn Chairman, Harvard Youth for Democracy
...frittered away. The Clinton Laboratories pop them into stainless steel and lead containers (weighing up to 1,600 Ibs.) and speed them by truck to the Knoxville airport. Prices vary widely. Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie* (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000). In the past year Oak Ridge made 1,092 shipments to 161 U.S. users, none to foreign countries...