Word: swiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine years later, the Yale administration tech another swipe at unrestrained student leadership and abolished the position of class leader. Each Yale class had usually elected its finest specimen as Class Bully. His official duty, for which he was equipped with a fine ebony mace, was to lead his class when, they warred with New Haven townies. The 1839 Class Bully was a game gent who, as a gag, led his class in a town and gown riot on commencement day just as the procession of the president and dignitaries started. The president tried to squelch the riot, but failed...
...names and addresses of friends and acquaintances in their areas who might like to subscribe to TIME. To date, we have received hundreds of names from them. Said a subscriber in Belize, British Honduras: "The first two names on the enclosed list are of people who usually swipe my copy of TIME before I have half read it. I would therefore be very happy to see them have their own." And a Ricran, Peru reader wrote: "Since my first reading of TIME in 1929 I have missed very few issues. To a great many people of my generation, TIME...
Since Drummer Hughes was at parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...
Warming up to his subject, MeInnis took a swipe at the off-season training tha is now necessary in so many sports. "In my day," said McInnis, "football was a fall sport, baseball was a spring sport, and the two didn...
Togliatti gave a mighty swipe of his desk, once more shot to his feet, raced for the government bench. "Let me go!" he shouted as two comrades seized him. "This is too much. He doesn't respect the dead. Let me go!" Other Communists yelled at De Gasperi: "Leave the hall...