Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dessert came favors for each lady (a paper fan and a peppermint "Mamie" carnation flown in from Colorado) and presents for the guest of honor: an antique fan of mother-of-pearl and lace and Iowa steaks, which Club President Mrs. Whitney Gillilland hoped Ike might cook himself. Then all sat back to watch the 30-minute telecast on monitors spaced around the ballroom...
Much of the varsity's hope lies in the 400 freestyle relay team consisting of Dyer, Pete Macky, Jon Lind, and Jorgensen. This team took the Easterns in 3:26.1, and, on paper at least, is the second fastest team in the country--Yale being the fastest, of course. Ohio State has done a 3:26.9 using medley star Al Wiggins as Anchor man, but since Wiggins is expected to swim in other events, the Buckeyes may drop back. Iowa State has done 3:24 in a 20-yard pool, but over the 25 yard length this would be equivalent...
Yale has not lost heavily by graduation, and on paper must be favored to repeat in the Ivy League, while B.C. will be powerful in the Greater Boston loop...
...third anniversary of his death (March 5) aroused wide resentment. Next day, following a number of unofficial party meetings, thousands of young Georgians demonstrated in the streets of Tiflis, carrying portraits of Stalin and shouting his praises. Three days later, to appease this outburst, the official Georgian Communist paper, Dawn of the East, devoted a whole page to glorifying Stalin. But having made this concession, Dawn of the East next day carried a demand that "provocateurs and enemy elements" in Georgia be crushed. Then orders came to "crush" the revolt. Some 15,000 party aides went to work "re-educating...
...Live and let live" is a more accurate statement of the law of the jungle than the commonly-accepted "dog-eat-dog" philosophy, William L. Brown Jr., and Edward O. Wilson, research zoologists of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said in a recent research paper...