Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report had been drawn up in routine fashion by the committee staff, Vandenberg explained, and had not been reviewed by the committee itself. Said Vandenberg: "I think it is obvious that certain reforms in the Chinese government and the basic Chinese economy are necessary . . . [but] I deeply respect the tremendous patriotic labors and the integrity of the great and courageous Generalissimo. ... I have always supported and continue to support him against the armed Chinese Communists...
...same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand by ... I'll probably end up by going," he forecast, "and blowing up and coming home on a shutter. Oh, well. It's a heroic...
...University of Kentucky's tall and terrifying basketball team (record: 33 wins, two defeats) ambled nonchalantly onto Madison Square Garden's polished floor. Their coach, heavy-jowled Adolph Rupp, hadn't even bothered to get a scouting report on the enemy team. Kentucky was dangerously cocky-with the N.C.A.A. championship hinging on the game. And before anybody had a chance to work up a sweat, Kentucky had scored 13 points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky...
...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS) to report the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac...
...frustration of science." The society, which has no real magnetic field, just a gelatinous shell, petered out, leaving science no more frustrated than usual. But the tradition goes on. Next time the rain washes dust or pollen or algae out of the air, some newspaper will probably report that "scientists were mystified." They often are, but not by green rain...