Word: websterisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...university has taken no action against either Oppit Webster, a 1979 graduate and an alumni trustee, who stayed with the protesters in the library all night, or five professors and a university chaplain, who began the sit-in but left shortly after midnight after heated discussions with administrators...
...about the possibility that the moderate wind might carry the taxic fog toward the city, Cambridge officials prepared yesterday morning for the possible evacuation of East Cambridge. Though officials abandoned that plan late in the morning, city manager James L. Sullivan did order students moved from the Gore St., Webster, Morse, Kennedy and Harrington schools to other parts of the city...
...recent state report found four of the city's 16 schools--the Fletcher, King, Roberts and Webster schools--racially unbalanced with more than 50 per cent minority enrollment...
Even as one House subcommittee announced plans to investigate the FBI'S internal ground rules for its sting operations, Director Webster expressed his belief that the FBI and Congress as a whole have compatible interests. Said he: "It's been my experience that public officials-say in Congress, for instance-want to get the rotten apples out. They're proud of what they are doing, and they are angered by anybody that is bringing discredit upon them by association...
Though the FBI insists it was scrupulous in its questioning of suspects and made every effort to avoid entrapment, civil libertarians can contend that the operation smacks uncomfortably of Big Brother. FBI Director Wil liam Webster phoned Senator Larry Pressler to congratulate him for emerging clean from his bribery test. But, asks Congress man William Hughes, who also resisted temptation: "Is it proper for the Executive Branch to pose a litmus test for the legislature...