Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days Dwight Eisenhower stayed close to his cliffside room in the Hotel Thayer at West Point, gazing out on an ice-choked Hudson River and the snow-covered hills. Outside his third-floor "presidential" suite, an MP stood guard. Downstairs in the basement grill, several hundred college girls and their cadet dates devoured cheeseburgers and malted milks while a juke box thumped out Goodnight, Irene...
Matthews South, last year's champion, dropped its first game in the new tournament to Matthews North, 13 to 11. In other games in the National League, Thayer South beat Straus South, 27 to 19; Thayer Middle edged Mower, 31 to 27; and Holworthy whipped Hollis, 28 to 19. In the American League, Lionel beat Weld North, 22 to 20; Straus North forfeited to Weld South; and Stoughton won over Thayer North...
...West Point's Thayer Hotel, Ike worked on his report, packaging it in five editions: 1) for the President and Cabinet; 2) for the Pentagon's NATO Standing Group; 3) for a joint session of Congress; 4) for the people-on major radio & TV networks, Fri., Feb. 2, 10:45 p.m. E.S.T.; 5) for the Senate and House foreign relations and armed services committees...
When rattle-tongued Washington society columnist Mary ("Molly") Van Rensselaer Thayer fell in love with the Air Force, she made it plain that she expected plenty of reciprocation. Though Molly writes all her copy lying in bed, her enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it, too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon...
...officer let them in on a secret-she felt she was too fat and had decided to diet off her "Christmas blubber" before being measured for a uniform. But this, it became obvious, was only a technical delay. Her maid immediately began answering the telephone with the words: "Colonel Thayer's residence...