Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article," the letter said, ". . . with a great deal of interest. It is excellent." The letter was signed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "This man," shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota clamored to join Humphrey's attack. Later, even calm old Walter George thought that Secretary Benson had "lost his usefulness...
...theory that nobody can get off fast enough from a sitting start when a Gruenthergram comes sizzling out of the commanding general's office. The Gruenthergrams range as far and wide as the general's far-ranging mind. Samples: "Please investigate the scratching and meows on the roof." "It seems to me that about a year ago I sent to G-2 a study dealing with Soviet concepts of strategy. I'd like to use it over the weekend." "I desire to land in Washington at 0830 on Wednesday." "What do you think of Mr. Attlee...
Died. Ivor Erskine St. Clair Ramsay, 53, dean and senior chaplain of King's College, Cambridge; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed," in a plunge from the roof of the chapel* in Cambridge, England...
...decide to postpone the next tuition rise--"indeed, a strong case could be made for a larger increase even now"--for another term or two. In that event we hope the Department of Buildings and Grounds will get out its brushes and cover the walls and roof of University Hall with a well-earned coat of the brightest spring green...
Helen of Troy (Warner). "Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, wrote Thomas Hey wood, "who, living, had no roof to shroud his head." Two other cities, Rome and Hollywood, which care more about the poet's capacity to turn a profit than a phrase, have recently made an uneasy truce before the walls of Troystrictly, of course, for the sake of plunder...