Word: putting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yelling, imploring, they held out their hands to touch him. Nervously, Nehru leaped from the car, made his way to an escorting Jeep, shouting for the people to make way. But his voice went unheard in the thunderous clamor, and Nehru characteristically put his chin in his hand and gazed stoically ahead. Downtown, the crowds were even stormier. WELCOME PRINCE OF PEACE, read a sign in Connaught Circus. Flowers by the pound flew at Ike until he was standing foot-deep in them, and the panting Secret Service men who had already been mauled by the mobs, began fielding...
Mamie had gone to work for Giffels & Vallet back in mid-1928. A few weeks later she slipped away from the office for a couple of hours to appear in court on a charge of embezzlement from a former employer, was put on five years' probation. Her new bosses were blissfully ignorant of her history...
While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...
Professors Elliott and Leach have presented a most interesting approach to the honorary degree problem and one that may well be applied to other vexatious question. When, for example, Radcliffe put an end to the CRIMSON's Miss Radcliffe contest, the editors might have instituted an annual competition among noted beauties of the past. The Williams professor and I may disagree on who immortalized the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, but we would, I am sure, agree that disputation about her beauty would have been more becoming than was the Kampus Kutle Kontest that agitated Plympton St. last year...
Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the real opportunity presented should not be obscured by the burdens which will be imposed on the Committee...