Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fierce and demanding minority, and cried injustice from housetop and street corner. The comfortable feared them. Gaitskell represents a new generation. He is no militant. He never talked himself hoarse on windy street corners under a policeman's hostile eye (as did Morrison), or chewed tobacco against the pit dust (as did Bevan). But 30 years after, Labor was in the position of having won its crusade. Once the citadel is stormed, the need is not for happy warriors but a good housekeeper; the welfare state needs to be run, not won. Successful British politics today consists in capturing...
...Where are the missing 22,000?" the Alumni Bulletin had exclaimed in its quest for 100 percent graduate participation. Seward C. Simons '11, a Tournament of Roses official, thought that they were probably out West, so he proposed to pit Harvard vs. Oregon in the Rose Bowl. Simons had come East to ball out his son, arrested for cutting off the pigtails of a girl sitting in front of him at the Harvard-Yale game...
Reflecting on the activities of our Secretary of State last week, one can only conclude that Dulles has done it again. Not content with his "mass retaliation" blunder, he again stumbled, this time apparently after looking very carefully at the pit before him. Searching for peace, Dulles again has dropped a bomb, needlessly irritating a people whom we hope to secure as allies. By referring to Goa as a Portuguese province Dulles managed to enrage the Indians. And amazingly enough, after having aroused them for no good purpose, he still refuses, in his good old blunt way, to offer...
Married. Anatole Litvak, 53, Russian-born cinema director (The Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number); and Sophie Bourdein, 32, French model; both for the second time (his first: Actress Miriam Hopkins); in Las Vegas...
...Snake Pit will brighten the day of few who see it. But as a significant social warning, the sacrifice is well worth-while. A stop-over at the Casablanca after the show is not recommended...