Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner has just the right combination of good form and easy friendliness. He certainly knows how to put things so that the cloth-capped worker will understand them, and has a gift for the happy phrase. Eccles on wage controls: "... I have been against the wage freeze. Bad chancellors resort to it as drunkards cling to lampposts, not to light themselves on their way but to conceal their own instability." Some of the older Tories look down their noses at Eccles as a brash publicity hunter. The truth is that he is a very good man whose reputation is likely...
Notable is a notorious den on Upper Plympton Street, where a CRIMSON photographer, disguised as a opium smoker with a camera hidden in his pigtail, snapped this picture. Police threaten to resort to DDT bombs unless the nest of uncleanligodliness is cleaned up by the end of the week...
Biology and chemistry concentrators pay a peculiar price for their choice of field. They don't enjoy lunch very often. Pitted against a rushed meal at the houses or no food at all, most lab students resort to the notorious box lunch...
...comparable case in recent memory is the Stanley-Belcher scandal of 1948. John Belcher, a Labor M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, was found to have accepted a gold cigarette case, a suit of clothes, unlimited hospitality, and a week's vacation at a seaside resort from one Sydney Stanley. In return, Belcher helped Stanley around the government, helped his friends get licenses for construction work on a resort hotel and helped quash prosecution of a Stanley client for alleged shady dealings in a gambling pool...
...proudly decked." Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham wrote that the general and his wife were "fresh as flowers in a florist's refrigerator" and noted, "If every wife were as pretty, as trim and as charming as Mrs. MacArthur, despite Corregidor, Australia, Japan, etc., they wouldn't have to resort to dreaming...