Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That act ... gave positive proof by actual deeds that the [Communists'] ceaseless professions of ... their devotion to 'democratic' processes and the maintenance of peace were utter shams...
...described its men's room as "a place that would turn a vulture's stomach." But what irritates a few Cantonians most is the grudging attitude of Pennsylvania employees toward passengers. Said Assistant Vice President H. W. Hoover Jr. of the Hoover (vacuum cleaners) Co.: "They show . . . utter disregard of their responsibility to the public." Hoover executives are so indignant that they refuse to ride the Pennsy from Chicago to their headquarters at Canton...
John E. Rexine '51 delivered the LATIN SALUTATORY DISSERTATION this morning while approximately 95 percent of his audience listened in utter bewilderment. After all, it is said, a gentleman need not know Latin, he needs only to have forgotten it. A summary for the puzzled follows...
...word by word, line by line. That night I was awakened roughly and was launched on a period of some twelve days of further grilling. I was fed scantily . . . I lost some 20 pounds, and was maliciously subjected to hours of shouting and screaming, or alternately isolated in utter, dead, maddening silence...
...cash, and married to a termagant wife, he takes any job that comes along. His first is reporter for an Indian "extreme-wing" publication. Sent to interview a swami called the "Sage of the Wilderness," he quickly falls under the old chap's spell. "Please, master," he asks, "utter a few words of wisdom and . . . comfort the reading classes." But the swami's brand of wisdom is P. T. Barnum's. "Canst thou," he inquires soulfully, "spare me thy trousers, thy jacket, thy shirt, thy shoes, thy cufflinks, thy watch, every accessory thou hast on thy person...