Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Miss Hunter showed up for her test, she was tailed by a platoon of reporters and photographers. Climbing into her test car, she stalled seven times, at last put-putted off at 15 m.p.h., made a quick right turn, nearly crashing into a van, stalled at a stop street, backed over a sidewalk while making a turn, sailed through a red light, flicked on her left-turn indicator at an intersection and then drove straight across, finally parked at the test center-three feet from the curb. So sure was Miss Hunter of her innocence that she refused...
...past, though, the Administration's role has largely been that of friendly mediator, suggesting solutions and helping two dissident parties inch toward compromise. This time was different. Neither a Taft-Hartley injunction nor a platoon of regular federal mediators did any good. So Kennedy named a three-man mediation board, headed by labor-leaning Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, and threatened the strikers and shippers with congressional intervention if they did not go along with the final terms of the board. It was practically compulsory arbitration. As Senator Morse put it: "Take it or leave...
Behind De Gaulle's regal non is the fear that British membership would be used to protect U.S. trading interests in Europe. As one French official puts it, De Gaulle considers the British as "an invading platoon of commandos opening the way for an assault wave of Americans in division strength...
...Platoon System...
Penn will host Lafayette, giving the Quakers the first opportunity to try out coach John Steigman's three platoon system. The game is a toss-up, but we like Penn by a point...