Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Timesman James Reston, his ears ringing from ten such strident U.S. statements in the past month, reported that they sounded "slightly like a stuck whistle...
...atom-built, atom-powered U.S. wonderland; he assumed only a continuance of the American talent for invention, and the American genius for production. He left the possibility of war out of consideration, as something that could not be charted. Then, projecting forward from known past performance, he predicted...
...campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...
Harris estimated that if the President's commission has its way, the U.S. would have 15 million living college graduates by 1970. If the same percentage of graduates aim for the professions as in the past (about 65%), there would have to be, to accommodate them, two or three times as many openings as exist in these prize fields now. Professor Harris, who believes as devoutly in an expanding U.S. economy as his associate, Economist Sumner Slichter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), wonders whether it can expand that much that soon...
...cheerleaders, who have been developing their tumbling skills for the past three weeks in a private gymnasium, have been forbidden to put on a demonstration between the halves on Saturday, because it "detractsz from the band." They will show off their new routines at the quarters...