Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roommates. But because of the crowded post-war conditions he was put in a converted double with Colley. It took only a short while for Colley and everybody on the floor to begin disliking him intensely. One thing that irked them most was his "masquerading as a veteran." Says Joseph Blundon '49, "We were all veterans and his pretending to be one went over like a lead balloon...
...Unequivocal Lie." For Stevens, the luncheon period could only have seemed the briefest of respites-and then he returned to face more of Jenkins' hammering questions. Said the veteran Tennessee trial lawyer: "One other serious charge has been made against you, and that is, from time to time you offered up a bigger bait even than David Schine to this committee to let you alone, to wit, the Air Force or the Navy, it being alleged that you tried to divert this committee from the Army to the Air Force or the Navy. What do you say about that...
Several days before the Journal-Bulletin story broke, the Associated Press fired its Boston bureau's veteran (29 years) sportswriter, William R. King, who was on the payroll for $500. The United Press "accepted the resignation" of its Boston bureau manager, Gardner L. Frost, a U.P. employee for 17 years, who got $500 last year from the track. The Boston Post, whose track reporter was on the list, said that he was not an employee of the paper but a "private contractor who sells a racetrack service to the Post." Hearst's American and Record replied that they...
...coof (blockhead), and left with an excess of vowels, he can appear downright dowf (stupid). Last week help came from the colleges, in the form of a special lexicon called What's That Word? (The Times Press, Wakefield, R.I.; 40?). Compiled by two veteran theme correctors-Martha Wright of the University of Massachusetts and Tony Hofford of the University of Rhode Island-the lexicon is not only a handbook on how to dow (prosper) at Scrabble; it is also a treasury of oddments to be mastered in a gliff (instant...
...teachers of English (and veteran scrabblers), Authors Wright and Hofford hope that their lexicon will do more than make their readers champions in the game. It should also be a boon to pavid people who cark about being mokes but would like to beek in glory...