Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he took over in 1965, NBC-TV's John Chancellor was the first working newsman ever to direct the Voice of America. His intention was to help shed its "institutional sound" - which too often was a bureaucratic defense of the incumbent Administration - and steer it closer to realistic journalism...
...literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
...duty of the King to support the army. The King heard him out and then dismissed the three officers, but only after warning them that there were to be no executions-of political figures or others. He told General Pattakos: "Not a drop of blood is going to be shed, or you'll be held responsible...
...afternoon speech before the Radcliffe Graduate Society, Robert Saudek '32, ex-television producer and an author of the Carnegie Commission report on educational television, "threw a poison dart and shed a tear" over commercial TV, saying that it has little hope of becoming anything but a "citadel of the non-think...
...rejected by every girl he met, as well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was a major effort, exiting from a cab became a three-minute ordeal. Now life is considerably lighter and brighter for Bostwick: in ten months he has shed 170 lbs. How? By belonging to Weight Watchers Inc., an organization that is making such dramatic reductions commonplace...