Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started most of his working days with an 8 a.m. conference with officials of Columbia University (his resignation is effective Jan. 19). Then he drove down from Morningside Heights to his headquarters in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. There the harried management had moved the wooden barrier far out into the sixth-floor lobby in an attempt to clear a passage through which Ike and his visitors could reach an elevator without being smothered by the crush of reporters and photographers...
...have very seldom seen, in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children." Again, he describes to Miss Coutts a slum called Hickman's Folly: "wooden houses like horrible old packing cases full of fever for a countless number of years. In a broken down gallery at the back of a row of these, there was a wan child looking over at a starved old white horse . . . The sun was going down and flaring out like an angry fire...
Less than two years ago, Slansky purged one of Gottwald's close friends and loyal followers, Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis. Last week Clementis sat on the wooden benches with Slansky-a codefendant. Less than two years ago, Slansky engineered the spy trial of the American A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (who had been trying to find out what happened to Clementis) in the same courtroom of Pankrac prison. The same judges, prosecutor and "defense attorney" who served in the Oatis case last week confronted Rudolf Slansky. So it goes in the Communist inferno...
...will be done behind the old wooden walls of the varsity field to ready the Crimson for Ed Molloy and Company. Injuries have out deeply into Jordan's line-up of seasoned players. Ron Noonan, who suffered a shoulder injury in the Brown game, is permanently side-lined. Bob Hardy will definitely sit out the Yale game with an ankle injury he received at Princeton two weeks...
...Lower Saxony, an old friend of Hitler's emerged from a wooden hut where he is living, unemployed, on a dole of $6.90 a week, to win a seat on both the town and county councils of Gifhorn. He was Brownshirt Wilhelm Schepmann, 58, last chief of staff of Hitler's Storm Troopers. Schepmann won easily, without even bothering to campaign. In other local elections in Lower Saxony the neo-Nazis campaigned on the slogan: "Stand fast. Remain German . . . We shall return." The Refugee Party, which had the Nazis' support, won 17% of the total vote...