Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refueling charges were concerned, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl E. T. Smith declared flatly that "the base has not and will not refuel or in other ways service Cuban military aircraft engaged in military operations." But the charges were beside the point. The kidnapings were obviously to get publicity and make Batista look ineffective. In forcing the U.S. to negotiate directly with them for the prisoners' release, the rebels readily accomplished their purpose of the moment...
...minds of children. But such an objection came from the monthly Bulletin of the Council for Basic Education, a cranky, flea-sized (16 one-column pages) publication that subsists on what it bites from the hide of fuzzy-thinking educators. Among the pre-chewed classics cited by Editor Mortimer Smith: A Tale of Two Cities, from which, in the Globe Book Co. edition, "nonessential parts of the plot" are excised, and "long descriptive and philosophical passages" are abridged. One of the nonessential parts: Dickens' ringing opening sentence-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
July 6, Rev. Richard Unsworth, Chaplain, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; July 13, Dr. Krister Stendahl, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.; July 20, Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, President American Unitarian Association, Boston, Mass.; July 27, Rev. William H. Watson, Congregational Union, England; August 3, Rev. Robert C. Dodds, Second Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn.; August 10, Rev. Harry Kruener, Dean of the Chapel, Denison University, Granville, Ohio; August 17, Rev. Jonathan N. Mitchell, Episcopal Chaplain, University of New Hampshire, Durham...
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Walter L. ("Red") Barber, Sports broadcaster L.H.D...
Production of Boeing's 707 jet transport is racing eight months ahead of schedule, and certification is going along so smoothly that the first planes will start hauling passengers barely four months from now. By the end of the year, American Airlines President C. R. Smith and Pan American Boss Juan T. Trippe plan to have eleven jets in the air. The trouble is that the U.S. airways are not-and will not be-ready to mix the 550-m.p.h. jets with 350-m.p.h. piston planes in real safety...