Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, having read the press notices, the President with wife, daughter, and staff, took off from Washington's national airport for the warm breezes and whispering palms of Key West. There he would have to do some work-on the State of the Union message, on the budget...
Just over a week ago, President Truman regretfully accepted Lilienthal's resignation. This loss leaves the AEC looking for a chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control...
The above four criticisms are on the statement alone; now we come to the question of timing. That Bingham should even discuss the problem of intercollegiate football at this time with the press, either on or off he record, is a greater blunder.
Bingham's statement may have been issued under the impression that it was off the record. But it has certainly turned out to be a tragic mistake, if only because it is inconsistent unto itself, and indulges in needless justifications
It went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel."