Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firmly believe that the imposition of these two oaths, but particularly the disclaimer clause, strongly infers, first, that American institutions of higher learning have not fulfilled their centuries-old responsibility to select and and support students of loyalty and integrity, and second, that American college students, as a group, are particularly suspect of disloyalty as opposed to the general citizenry...
...gladden the debut of Coach Dale Hall, Army flashed the power and precision of old, rolled up 560 yds. from scrimmage for a 44-8 victory over hapless Boston College, topping Navy's 24-8 victory over the same team the week before...
...greater worries plague the used-car dealers. They fear that the compacts, priced in the same range as late-model used cars, will wreck their market. If that happens, the market for new cars would be hard hit; if a motorist cannot get a fair price for his old car, he will not be eager to trade it in on a new car. On the other hand, some optimistic secondhand dealers argue that the buyer in the $2,000 class will prefer a roomy, late-model car to a compact. "The man who has been in the habit of buying...
...going home. This farcical filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent. You cannot bargain with a stone wall...
...Orde Wingate was an obscure, 30-year-old British army lieutenant stationed at an obscure post in the Sudan. His future seemed bleak, for most people found him untidy in person and conceited in mind. All his actions tended to infuriate, whether he was receiving visitors naked, or praising Communism to hidebound Tories, or sneering at sports to his athletic fellow officers. It was easy to understand why his schoolboy nickname had been "Stinker...