Word: weasels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craig said that the Admissions office had no sympathy with a Princetonian editorial of last term which suggested that a screening committee weed out the applicants who would not benefit fully from a Princeton education. "It was very unfortunate publicity, of course," Craig said. "The Princetonian tried to weasel out of it by saying it was just one statement of current opinion run, because of lack of space, in the editorial column. It wasn't a very good weasel...
...that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind...
...water, boats with such family names as Comet, Lightning, Star, Thistle, Raven, Rebel, Weasel and Wood Pussy were chasing each other, waiting for vagrant puffs of breeze, or just lazing along. Sometimes, in a strong puff, one or more blew over; but after thrashing about in the water for a while their crews climbed in again, bailed, and sailed on or waited for a tow. In short, as the saucer man would have been fully justified in reporting to his interstellar G2, the Americans have found a big new way of getting sunburned, soaked to the skin and happily exhausted...
...Birdmen, known affectionately as The Flock, started off their dreary afternoon by dropping the annual baseball game, 23 to 2. Ace Crimson moundsman Mickey "The Kid" Maccoby, known affectionately to his teammates as "the Weasel," retired the entire Poonie aggregation on one pitch, his famous "blackball." Explaining his use of this dreaded weapon, Maccoby said, "It matters not if you won or lost, but who you let play in your game...
Herbert strains the budding romance by planting dead cats on the widower's doorstep with tags addressed to "Old Runt" and "Old Weasel." When such shenanigans pall, Herbert has his daughter read to him about Nazi atrocities at Belsen. "Lunatics are all about us," he warns...