Word: pierson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowell vs. Pierson...
Lowell House, plagued with a series of injuries, meets Yale's Pierson College. Last Tuesday, fullback Tom Ellingson, Don Stevenson, and Don Brown received injuries that will keep them from playing Friday afternoon. Although only sixth place in the league, the Bellboys have reportedly made their best showing in ten years...
...shocked murmur ran through the Council chamber. Suavely, British Delegate Sir Pierson Dixon rose to announce that he trusted that "the great majority of my colleagues will agree that the action taken is in ... the interest of security and peace." He hoped that U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "will agree that nothing would be gained" by consideration of the U.S. resolution asking Israel to withdraw immediately from Egypt...
...thank Dag Hammarskjold for pulling Israel and the Arabs apart two months ago, and to maintain the momentum for peace built up by his Palestine mission, the British had cooked up a well intentioned resolution. To make it speak for East as well as West, Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon tossed in a phrase from a Russian Foreign Ministry Office pronouncement of last April expressing hope for a peaceful settlement "on a mutually acceptable basis." Obviously it was a line the Soviets thought well of, for the same words found their way into the Anglo-Russian communiqu...
Russia's Arkady Sobolev, grasping quickly at a chance to score with the Arabs, announced that his government would disown its words and vote to strike them from the resolution. Sir Pierson Dixon, after stiffly refusing to take out "five little words which are really a glimpse of the obvious," received new orders from "a higher authority," namely Sir Anthony Eden. At the next meeting the British and the U.S. yielded "in the interests of unanimity." Dropping the paragraph the Arabs objected to, the council voted a watered-down resolution calling on the secretary-general to keep using...