Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married students escape the hardships of the single. "My wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will...
The next day the German nation read Freiburg's story in scare headlines: the French had bombed an open city, a peaceful university town. Eleven children, 46 others had been murdered. Hitler ranted that he could no longer hold to his pledge never to bomb an open city.
The old warhorses--apathy, procrastination, plain indifference--can be trotted out to explain the pitifully low returns. And the new rationalizations--late veterans checks, post-Yale poverty, plain forgetfulness--can very easily be used to explain away neglect of pledges. Five thousand dollars worth of these pledges are still unfulfilled...
Douglas took the Roosevelt economy pledge at its face value and set to work paring the budget 25%. He slashed Government workers' pay 15%, sliced $400 million out of veterans' appropriations. When someone once protested that the District of Columbia Commissioners would be "very shocked" by a 25...
Yardlings are being asked to pledge a subscription to the Freshman publication early this fall, as Maynard warned: "Requests for the yearbook which are received after the printing contract has been arranged cannot be filled, for the Committee is working with a limited budget which requires a single printing order...