Word: warmup
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With scarcely any warmup, he promptly went into his weekly political huff. The previous week his target had been Ohio's Robert Taft. Last week it was the Republican opposition to his renomination of Sumner Pike to the Atomic Energy Commission. That opposition seemed to him foolish. He was perfectly aware, he said, that the ground was political; yes, party political; Republican Party political, if you please. It was no surprise to Truman that Colorado's heretic Edwin C. Johnson-a Democrat, of all things-had voted with the Republican Senators against Pike, for Johnson, the President observed...
...game was a warmup one for both teams. Tufts goes on to participate in the N.C.A.A. tournament, while Harvard plays its final two games against Yale...
...Stalin's Started It." Over in town, South Amboy's Mayor John Leonard, a short, fat man who likes to wear a baseball player's warmup jacket, was done with his day's work. He was watching Captain Video on his television set, had settled down for a snug evening at home. His plans were quickly changed...
...climate getting warmer? U.S. meteorologists, observing and charting the weather with growing exactitude over the past 20 years, are no closer to agreement on the question than their predecessors of a century ago. Last week a Washington convention of the American Meteorological Society heard strong evidence to favor the warmup theory...
...warmup for the Newman tilt, the Yardling five engaged in a two-hour scrimmage with Somerville High in the Blockhouse yesterday. Neither team showed any marked superiority, and the scoring was light...