Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unprecedented number of parental refusals considerably dimmed original hopes. From the 1600 letters sent out, 150 refusals were received, and more than 300 parents neglected to send any reply. Students between 18 and 21 years old are required to get parental consent...
...Spin. Since Pioneer III never approached the moon, not all its instruments came into play. The most novel one was an optical gadget designed to send a radio signal when it saw a bright object the size of the moon at a distance of 22,000 miles. The instrument was shielded from the sun, and it would have been activated by a timing device only after the receding earth looked smaller than the approaching moon...
Heat & Light. Scott's most startling idea was to send to Formosa monosyllabic Football Editor Annis (the "Loquacious Lithuanian") Stukus, onetime coach of the Edmonton Eskimos and British Columbia Lions. Scott's theory: "Stukus will give the average guy a sense of identification with where the hell Formosa is and what's going on there." Stukus filed some earnest Hemingway-like prose, scored a major beat by wrangling an exclusive interview with Chiang Kaishek. Though the session produced nothing new, Scott delightedly ran Footballer Stukus' picture cheek by jowl with the Gimo on the front page...
...teaching school and the kids are waiting for a street light. Instead of just waiting around and having them get into trouble, you send them looking for four-leaf clovers or a special kind of grass...
Perhaps it is unfair to send critics tickets for opening nights. Openings at times tend to seduce us from our Olympian objectivity. The atmosphere is tuxedoed and festive and charged with excitement, and everybody cheers and shouts and applauds like fury. Well, last night they had something to shout about. Yeomen of the Guard would be a delight on a rainy night in a plague year before an audience of psychopathic dope fiends. Under the conditions that prevail at Agassiz, it is an absolute, downright, unimpeachable, irreproachable, rip-roaring riot...