Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in a row Northeastern has handed the practice-shy varsity losses in its first game after exam period, but last night it took less than a period for Cooney Weiland's team to shake off most of the effects of its three-week lay-off. The Crimson scored once in the first period, twice in the second, and four times in the third. A little less astute goal-tending by the Huskies' Don Whynot would have resulted in at least four more Crimson scores...
...vote the Communists intend to show their will to fight with the Socialist workers to pre vent ratification of the Bonn agreements and the Treaty of Paris [EDC]." Next day Socialist Le Troquer, a good anti-Communist who is regarded as "more for than against" the EDC, tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent: "I wish to address our heartfelt and grateful salute to our French brothers and our Vietnamese comrades who are defending a sacred cause on the soil of Indo-China...
...wilted lettuce, think of me"), a gentle bird watcher and shipping clerk, whose lack of aggressiveness makes Wally Cox's Mr. Peepers seem like a pushing extrovert. Scriptwriters Frank and Doris Hursley have supplied Freberg with some amusing situations and some funny lines. That's Rich should shake down into a successful radio show and may eventually make the move to TV. Currently the program is unsponsored...
...given to undue optimism, tartly observed: "We have the situation well in hand . . . The major difficulty of the French command in Indo-China is to come to grips with the Viet Minh. They are like a swarm of flies buzzing around a tree. If you shake the tree they fly away in all directions . . . The Viet Minh tried to win a cheap, spectacular success to compensate for their failure in the vitally important Red River delta, where they have been unable to gain any substantial advantage." General Navarre, in a special message to his troops, said that he "fully expects...
Last week the difference gave Look a wholesale shake-up in its top editorial staff. Since President Cowles leaned towards Shapiro's view of how Look should be run, Tasker abruptly resigned. Into his place went an old Look hand, Dan Mich, 49, who had resigned in 1950 as executive editor of Look to become editorial director of McCall's (circ. 4,525,060). Because Cowles wanted "to give Mich a free hand in selecting his assistants," Look's Executive Editor William Lowe and Managing Editor Les Midgley resigned with Tasker. New Editorial Director Mich, whose salary...