Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday's finals, none of Hal Ulen's varsity contrived a point. Yale dominated the meet all the way, and although all scoring is on an individual basis, unofficial tabulation makes the Blue squad the East's best...
...last, Majority Leader Scott Lucas decided to put a stop to all the talk. He presented a petition to end the debate by invoking cloture. It became Vice President Barkley's duty to rule on whether cloture could indeed be applied and the filibuster shut off at this point...
...trying to buy most of what she needs from the sterling areas. She has reduced her dollar imports by 25%; the other major OEEC nations by only 15%.* Last week Cripps proposed that the others should make a further reduction of 10% to match Britain. At this point ECA's Averell Harriman, who had been itching to join the discussions, was invited in, and promptly threw his weight with the continental high-volume traders...
...might be said (and undoubtedly would be) that this was only a "moral" commitment. But since there exists no supranational agency capable of enforcing commitments by sovereign states, all treaties rest on moral commitments. The European nations seemed to be satisfied-and that was the main point...
...Britain, at least, there was no longer any point in warning citizens that they were selling their birthright of freedom for a mess of pottage. Bevan, the bulldog breed's new vet, could reply that Britons could eat tastier, tougher fare than pottage now that they had got new false teeth from the health service. As TIME's London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs cabled...