Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student and alumni groups opposed to the appointment of the physicist plan no public protest or demonstration. Members of the Harvard Athenaeum said they would oppose and try to discourage such action, but will sponsor a debate on the subject next week...
...confided by phone to Peter Lind Hayes, who is substituting on his morning radio and TV shows. Peter occasionally let viewers hear the familiar adenoidal wheeze: "It looks bloop bleep like Wyoming. It's 123 degrees. You get headaches from the heat. But boy, that Bufferin [a sponsor] has been a godsend. By George, it's wonderful...
...smoldering jungle, Godfrey's party was also using a lot of Ban, a new underarm deodorant (and Godfrey sponsor) : "We're the first white people who've ever been seen in this part of the country, and these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...
Brady explained in the letter that the Athenaeum intended to sponsor a debate on the Oppenheimer appointment and requested information on "why and how" he was selected. In the memorandum, the group presented a lengthy statement of six "incidents" which the signers felt should disqualify Oppenheimer as the James lecturer...
Party Conscience. Nowak was a member of the hated Bierut Politburo during the years Gomulka was under arrest, a sponsor of schemes to prevent Gomulka's return to power after the Poznan riots, a champion of the policy of encouraging anti-Semitism in order to divert the anger of the masses from the Stalinist party leaders. Nowak's name had been stricken from the list of candidates for the new Parliament...