Word: sniped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like newspapers, magazines seldom snipe at one another in print. But when Look ran a piece last Feb. 15 stating that President Roosevelt had been direly ill for several years before his death, it might have known that it was inviting a blast from the writing Roosevelts. Last week Look got the counterfire...
...Harvard-hating segment of the nation's press has been handed a new chance to snipe at the Veritas banner. The papers have just learned that last February Edwin B. Newman of the Psychology Department told Bloomfield College in New Jersey that he did not think psychologists at Bloomfield or elsewhere should be selected for their political or economic beliefs. And the press has also heard that Newman said Bloomfield flouted freedom of speech and conscience when it insisted on orthodox opinions. Hearing all this, they have given Newman harsh publicity in the last month...
...Must Take Risks." Bernadotte, a courageous and stubborn man, was not deterred by the country's temper. Last week he reported on conditions in Jerusalem. "It's like this," he said. "Both Arabs and Jews are trigger-happy. They shoot into the dark at night. They snipe by daylight. Excuse me, but it is a most idiotic thing...
...dispute did not head off a soccer game between crews of H.M. sloop Snipe and the Argentine minesweeper Seaver, both stationed at Deception Island. Score: Britain 1, Argentina...
...critics who snipe at radio must be hitting pretty close to home if Veteran Radioman Ratner wraps himself in the folds of Old Glory [TIME, Nov. 10] ... just because someone puts the finger on a particularly obnoxious commercial or an especially sloppy soap opera...