Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoldering reasons. For one, Congressmen consider Pentagon bookkeeping atrocious, listened with narrow-eyed interest last week when Comptroller General Joe Campbell journeyed to the Hill to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the $400 million surplus from the 1954 foreign-aid appropriation that the Defense Department refused to turn back to the Treasury. (Retorted the Defense Department: "a technicality.") Even after his committee's cuts, said Richards, "there's enough money in here with the carryover of $5.2 billion [in funds previously appropriated but unspent] to give them all they can possibly spend . . . for the next...
...Dean, Leroy M.S. Miner D.M.D. '40, who saw him going out with the old School, rallied to save him. "You're at the wrong meeting," the chairman told Maloney. "You should be at the Association of Medical Schools meeting." Maloney discovered that a special session was scheduled specifically to turn down Harvard, and he withdrew the application...
...struck out ten men, allowed only eight hits, tore home from second on an eighth-inning infield single, slid head first into big Del Crandall at the plate, jarred the catcher loose from the ball and scored the run that tied up the game. When Roberts took his turn again, four days later, the red-hot sluggers of the Cincinnati Redlegs sighted in on his polite pitching and beat him handily, 5-1. There was never a sign of wildness; it was just one of the days when the percentages ran against...
Once scorned among Catholics themselves as "dreary diocesan drivel," the U.S. Catholic press has grown in variety, liveliness and readability. Many Catholic papers draw enough advertising to turn a steady profit; where they do not, the church pays their deficits. The press still suffers widely from what Bishop Dwyer called "a good deal of pious incompetence." But the intellectual weeklies-the liberal lay Commonweal and the Jesuit-edited America, etc.-come up to any secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan...
...pastels, Renoir exclaimed in astonishment: "You, too?" Lautrec also praised her work, saw to it that she met the great, testy French master, Edgar Degas, who had seen her as an acrobat at Place Pigalle's Molier Circus before a bad fall finished her brief career. Degas in turn was delighted. Said he: "You are one of us." Recalled Suzanne, years later: "That day I had wings...