Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two minor attacks on Israelis in the Negev desert, two parties of Israelis carried out separate ambushes inside the Gaza Strip in which nine Egyptian soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...shot a distance of 46 ft. 9½ in. for a new American record and a place on the team. As if to make sure she would get to Melbourne, formidable Earlene (226 Ibs.) also picked up a discus, threw it in a style that recalled a comic-strip wife wielding a rolling pin, and set another American record: 145 ft. 4½ in. Only other double Olympics qualifier: Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's tiny (108 Ibs.) Mae Faggs, 24, who finished first in the 200-meter dash, second in the 100-meter dash. Saddest woman...
...Nasser declined to sign a military aid agreement with the U.S. "Too much like 'colonization,' " he said. He did not like the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, either. But it was Israel's 1955 Gaza Strip raid, in which 38 of his soldiers were killed, that Nasser called "the turning point." "Until that moment," said Nasser later, "I felt the possibility of real peace was near." He counterpunched. He had to have more arms, he said...
...home is within a stone's throw of the Bluebell and Primrose. Though she usually rode about in her own motorcar, wealthy Miss Bessemer had an odd affection for the Bluebell and Primrose. "We oughtn't," she told her neighbors, "to look at it as a wee strip of line, but as part of a whole principle." In England there is always an appropriate society for such invokers of principle. She sought the aid of the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom, but found the society hopelessly sentimental and impractical...
...when you enter a car or a door or sit down. But on a stairway, be sure to walk ahead of the lady. This is because the skirts are getting so short." Advice for all: "Americans consider a train coach a parlor, and pandemonium will result if any Japanese strip to their underwear, as on Japanese trains." ¶ The national organization of the Sigma Kappa sorority notified its chapters at Cornell and Tufts universities that "for the good of the sorority as a whole," it was expelling them both. Though headquarters gave no specific reasons, the chapters had a pretty...