Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treading Water. Halvard Lange would need courage and the ability to keep his feet on the ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
...Deal. Out went Air-Frame Builder Burdette S. Wright and Engine Builder William D. Kennedy, both Curtiss-Wright vice presidents of long standing. In came a high-powered slate of directors. Among them...
...final mark of its hard-won independence, the Air Force last week proudly displayed the new uniform which all airmen will be wearing by September 1950. A natty slate blue (47 other shades of blue were rejected), with light blue shirt and dark blue tie, it is slightly darker than the R.A.F. model, sports new silver buttons and a black-visored cap instead of the traditional gold metal and tan leather. The other major change: inverted chevrons sprouting upwards from an Air Force star, the first upswept insigne for U.S. noncoms since the Spanish-American...
...Manhattan's gaudy Copacabana nightclub. So, unfortunately, did two reporters. Next day there were wild cries of dismay as the distinguished guests scurried for cover. The reporters had spotted five judges of the state Supreme Court, at least three other judges, a U.S. Congressman, a whole slate of Tammany luminaries headed by Hugo E. Rogers, president of the borough of Manhattan...
...Debate Council elected a new slate of officers for 1949 at a meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room yesterday afternoon...