Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech still treasured by collectors of political palaver. At one point, to establish Lucas' superiority over Henry Wallace, Kelly solemnly told the convention that Senator Lucas was "a member of no thinking group...
...overseas by Communist couriers. Crew members of the Hamburg-American Line helped out; later, after Hitler came to power, the films were sent via the French Line. From 1935 to 1938, Chambers had two sources in the State Department (so far only Hiss has been named publicly). At one point, four "high sources" in Washington were so productive, Chambers said, that Moscow sent them rich Bokhara rugs in appreciation...
After a year or so of caddying, he decided to try the game himself. He scared up some old clubs and started swinging. Since left-handed clubs were hard to come by, he became a righthander. But he seemed to have little natural talent. Says Denny Lavender, West Point golf coach who grew up with Ben: "He didn't do one thing right. He couldn't putt. As a kid he practically ran at the ball...
...surprising as it may seem, that I experienced at Amsterdam the opposition between 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'continental' theology at a quite different point from that which Niebuhr has raised . . . To put it quite simply, it was the different attitude to the Bible, from which we each take our start . . . I was struck by finding in our Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according...
...Stevenson, who was the big gun in the Trinity victory, was blanketed by his 6 ft. 6 in. defense man and only scored one point. The rest of the team also ran into a tight wall and were battered under the boards...