Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...send Sprague's name to the Senate for confirmation. After nearly four weeks, an embarrassed Sprague wrote the President: "Unless I hear from you, I will proceed on the assumption that my name will not be sent . . ." He would stay around two more days, he wrote, then pack up and go home. Two days later, toward evening, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams telephoned. The President and G.O.P. leaders in the Senate had discussed the problem at breakfast that morning. Their decision: under the circumstances, it would be "imprudent" to ask the Senate Armed Services Committee to confirm Stockholder Sprague...
Homecoming Early last December, in one of the year's outstanding contributions to tabloid titillation, the New York Daily News led the pack in discovering Christine Jorgensen, the ex-G.I. from The Bronx who reported that Danish doctors had converted him into a woman (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, fittingly, it was the News which best answered the "who, what, when, where" as it reported Christine's gala homecoming. Said the News: "Christine Jorgensen, the lad who became a lady, arrived home from Denmark yesterday, lit a cigarette like a girl, husked 'Hello' and tossed...
...cheerleaders are unnecessary to develop crowd spirit, perhaps, a team's efforts do usually bring "spontaneous applause," but aren't we overlooking their significant importance as a symbol of a loyal, interested school behind their team. The argument we find hard to follow is the recommendation that existing cheerleaders "pack away their uniforms" in favor of "informal, genuine cheering" at indoor events. Not only is this a gross absurdity, since there are no cheerleaders at the games, but the informal hisses, shouts, and disordered applause we have witnessed warrant a more effective system of expressing our loyal support. Basketball...
...than spirit. And at basketball games there was no organized cheering until a few years ago. Before that, a few extroverts would lead spontaneous cheering when it was clearly deserved--a much more sensible approach. The Council might follow up its veto of feminine exhibitionists by recommending that cheerleaders pack away their uniforms and return to informal, genuine cheering at indoor events...
...Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture has run its course, the medicine man and welfare worker, who are about to be married, have adopted the orphan and his dog, and have also put to rout a pack of crooked politicians responsible for lamentable conditions at the orphanage. Spotting this confection at intervals are some pleasant old songs, e.g., Oh, Suzanna and All God's Chillun Got Wings, pleasantly sung by Dailey, Chet Allen and "Scat Man" Crothers...