Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editors of the Crimson take pleasure in announcing the election of Robert S. Sturgis '44, of Leverett House and Weston, as its first post-war President. R. Scot Leavitt '46, of Wigglesworth Hall and Greenwich, Conn., has been elected as Managing Editor, Marvin S. Traub '46, of Wigglesworth Hall and New York City, as Business Manager, S. Douglass Cater '46, of Wigglesworth Hall and Birmingham, Alabama, as Editorial Chairman, J. Anthony Lewis '48 of Lowell House and New York City, as Executive Editor, and Paul Southwick '43, of Leverett House and Baltimore, as Photographic Chairman...
...though the worst had happened. With beleaguered Briton and resentful Russian glaring at each other, the war might be lost. The man who had the two allies warmly toasting each other's health before they parted was His Majesty's Ambassador to Moscow: an emollient, easygoing Scot named Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr. Last week Clark Kerr (pronounced clark karr) was set for more peacemaking in Britain's current hot spot, Indonesia...
...very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports in the Embassy backyard, stripped to the waist. But they understood and admired his blend of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright candor. In the recent negotiations over broadening the Rumanian Government, Clark Kerr successfully leaped into one of his rare rages as the only means...
...bill did not say, or imply, as some lawmakers and editors loudly cried, that Congress was relinquishing its war-making powers to two men-the President and his UNO delegate. Nor did it mean that the President would now be scot-free to get the U.S. into a series of meddling and unconstitutional wars to back up the nation's Charter pledges. U.S. Presidents have always had the power to send their troops into battle-they have done so many times without committing the nation to war. But Congress has always reserved, and still reserves, the right to follow...
Last week in Ontario's Supreme Court, a canny Scot Justice named Keiller MacKay gave a decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...