Word: squirmings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missing the services of Captain Craig Stapleton, Coach Jack Barnaby moved the bottom five men on the ladder up one position, and played John Whitbeck at nine. Barnaby still came up with five wins for the last six. But Amherst made those five squirm...
...says Marshall, reflects a basic flaw in the reporting out of Viet Nam. The "over whelming majority" of reporters, he claims, exhibits a "cynical faddishness" that has not characterized the reporting of any previous U.S. war. "Today's average correspondent prefers a piece that will make people squirm and agonize. The war is being covered primarily for all bleeding hearts and for Senator Fulbright, who casts about for a way to stop it by frightening and shocking the citizenry. It is not being reported for simple souls who would like to know how it is being fought...
Track: In the meet on May 7, the Crimson watched a chance for victory over the powerful Yale team squirm from its grasp in the final events. A hobbled Harvard squad fell in the two relays, and Yale won the contest...
Though many businessmen instinctively squirm at such attempts to control the marketplace, the most serious im pending threat to the economy does not come from any widespread lack of confidence in the Administration but rather from success itself. There is little slack in the U.S. economy - and an anticipated boost of anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion in defense spending for Viet Nam next year may well expand it to the limit. Shortages of skilled la bor are showing up in the construction, aviation and shipbuilding industries. As a result, draft boards throughout the country have been ordered...
...Nanny is a small sedate British thriller, based on the assumption that one good squirm deserves another. Having mopped up in three earlier blood-letters, moviedom's Ace Bogeywoman Bette Davis now goes about her grisliness with quiet, unruffled efficiency. The Nanny is her definitive essay on the servant problem, and may be taken as an antidote by those who found Mary Poppins too sweet to stomach...