Word: waverings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even in the usually placid interval between halves did last Saturday's high pitch of excitement waver. Definitely outclassed instrumentally along the ground, the B.U. band resorted to the use of their air arm to gain a tie in the much heralded-by BU tub thumpers-battle of the bands...
Charted Policy. The world would probably see few changes in U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. was committed to U.N. and to devoting all its powers to make it work. The line toward Russia would not waver; the atom secret would not be given away until the U.S. program for internationalization was accepted. The U.S. still stood for disarmament-when all other major powers are ready to do the same...
...great majority of students in one way or another, and many students in several ways. For instance, one of the eighteen proposed activities suggests a "student employment center...to find employment for students along lines for which they have prepared." As a middle-man between employer and hopeful diploma-waver, the possibilities of such a center are tremendous. Other suggestions, such as the one which would "encourage the raising of the level of housing for all students and especially direct attention to the needs of married students," show the nature of the conference's interests to tally with those...
They reckoned without Luigi Longo, who represented the Communists in the discussions with Pertini. Moscow-trained Longo, an eloquent, sardonic veteran of the resistance movement, worked on resistance veteran Pertini in a series of secret meetings beginning in July. He got nowhere until mid-October, when Pertini began to waver. Longo's arguments included the charge that De Gasperi's government was dragging its feet on nationalization and land reform. Increasingly, Longo's case was helped by the West's blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA...
Reprisal. In Chicago, Drummer Al Carter, unemployed when his bandleader invented a mechanical drumbeater, vengefully perfected a mechanical baton-waver...