Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three sub-committees will deal with the particular fields of research, education and medical care...
High school student body presidents, often but not necessarily from the Midwest, enjoy serving the University in various roles. It may be as sub-chairman of a Combined Charities drive, or it may be as one of the ushers in Memorial Church, who pray louder, sing louder, and scrub cleaner than anyone except the members of Harvard's two principal service societies...
Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...
...bucket, Nantucket. This innocent rhyme was instantly followed by innumerable sub-wits who varied the towns (Pawtucket, Manhasset), or thought that they could find a better last line. It is probably one or another coarse version of this that most lim erick fanciers remember...
...part of a massive Cabinet and sub-Cabinet reshuffle that included firing five of his older ministers, the Prime Minister appointed himself Britain's economic overlord, much as a desperate Winston Churchill took charge of Britain's defense in the darkest hour of World War II. Even for a man of Wilson's stubborn courage, it was a moment of daring. By personally assuming control of the Department of Economic Affairs, Wilson not only gave himself the toughest job in Britain but gambled his political future on victory where two senior ministers have failed...