Word: resort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short War, Long War. On relations with India over the question of Kashmir and canal waters, he was equally inflexible: "We will endeavor to get a satisfactory solution through peaceful means. If we have to resort to extreme measures the responsibility will be that of India." Did he mean war? Answered Ayub Khan softly: "Yes, certainly, even though it would destroy both countries." Clutching his neck in both hands, he added: "If someone is doing this to you, what would you do? Lie back...
COMBINATION refrigerator-freezer. Regularly $449.50. Now only $349.95." Such price-cutting ads, often phony, are among the fastest spreading evils of U.S. merchandising. Once only fly-by-nighters in dingy back streets offered fake bargains. Today, in trying to keep up with the discount houses, even old established merchants resort to price trickery. The problem is so bad that the Federal Trade Commission last month came out with a nine-point "Guides Against Deceptive Pricing," aimed at getting merchants and manufacturers to cooperate to force more honesty back into price advertising. Unless something is done, FTC Chairman John Gwynne told...
...resigned originally "on a matter of principle," and his only resort was "to play safe." Khan noted that the group had been "free of politics and pressures while Prince Sadruddin Aly Khan '55 was present at Harvard...
...needs more teachers, and needs to employ them in undergraduate American courses. Such action, besides reviving the weak pulse of Warren House, might keep many intelligent people from despairing and deserting into History and Lit, and make the department more of a going concern and less of a last resort...
Still legend is the public bliss that surrounded the wedding of Eddie and Debbie three years ago in an enchanted castle named Grossinger's, a famed Catskills resort. At the time, pressagents recalled glowingly that when Debbie was in high school her mother had embroidered sweaters for her with the initials N.N.-for "non-neckers." Eddie, while never one to be stopped by initials, seemed to behave, at least for a while, and did not chase around a bit more than he had as a bachelor...