Word: two-year-old
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...influence, patriots and toadies who came to him with one proposal or another. His duty bade him say no to these schemes, but he was such a kindly fellow (in some respects) that he could not bear to speak the word. He would call in his two-year-old granddaughter and repeat the proposal to her, in front of the visitor. Since she was a well-brought-up little girl, to all these propositions she would unhesitatingly say no. "How can I go against her?" the old gentleman would ask. After a while, the granddaughter, bored with the routine, began...
Above the squabbles of Europe, and its own internal jealousies, the voice of France sounded bold and clear last week. By a thumping 377-233 majority, the French National Assembly ratified Foreign Minister Robert Schuman's two-year-old plan to pool Europe's coal and steel resources. It was proof-and proof was badly needed-that France can still take the lead in Europe when boldly led herself...
...stagger most newspapers. But its reports seldom err. Most of them are in a jargon no layman can understand. Example: A line on one of the entries in the second race at Florida's Tropical Park one day last week carried this report on Stormy Ruth, a two-year-old bay filly by Little Beans-Witchwater, by St. James, bred by J. Tucci, trained by M. Fife: "23Jy 51-1 Jm fst 5½ f .23 .471/5 1.06 3/5 Cl. $6500 3 3 1 3 3 4 9 17" The knowing reader's translation: On July 23rd, Stormy...
California University's Board of Regents voted Friday not to reconsider the two-year-old loyalty oath for all faculty members which the Board rescinded last month. Friday's vote was 12 to 5. Such action completely kills any chance of the oath being reinstituted...
...Marcel Boussac, French textile tycoon, the one-mile-Houghton Stakes at Newmarket, with his two-year-old colt Auriban, thus becoming the leading money-winner in Britain ($103,716) for the second year...