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...clubs run out of liquor and every door on Prospect Street spews forth a jubilant stream of staggering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is now at its beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold; one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

...Surprise ($100,000) was conceived to totter CBS ratings and failed, nevertheless will be relaunched this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Money | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Scelba had seen Trieste settled and had pushed through the Paris accords. At home he had launched an attack, even though belated and limited, on the Communists' entrenched privileges. But he had gotten nowhere on Italy's much-needed social and economic reforms. Skillful on the teeter-totter of politics, he had merely avoided falling to the left or falling to the right by a careful balancing that kept him and his government upright but accomplished little else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Fall of Scelba | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Whenever a government begins to totter, many a Deputy is willing to give it the last shove because he wonders: "Why shouldn't I become a Cabinet Minister?" Nearly one out of every four Deputies in the Assembly has been a Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRENCH ASSEMBLY | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...Hottentot taught a tot to talk ere the tot could totter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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