Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pitch of A. Both will be badly needed to dispel the fog in Beirut. At its first meeting in Paris two years ago, U.S. Delegation Chairman William Benton had likened the general program of UNESCO to "a pork barrel floating on a cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks...
...since the exhausting election campaign. He reported on his physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the New Dealing Chicago Sun-Times reported: "He speaks now with tones of authority . . . confident of his mandate." From his cracker-barrel perch on the arch-Republican New York Sun, Columnist H. I. Phillips wrote reassuringly: "I think Harry's hat still fits . . . and that always in his ear he hears his mom whispering, 'Behave yourself, Harry...
What helps make a Tallulah filibuster spellbinding is the famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...
...assigned to the wooden stands with the possible exception of section 38. Put the resulting overflow seniors at the top of the juniors first section, the overflow juniors at the top of the sophomores' first section, and so on down the field through section 37 . . . Graham Taylor '50 Robert Barrel '46 Deo Bogert '49 Peter Olney...
...barrel or rags burst into flames in Widener basement about 8 p.m. last night, but automatic sprinklers doused the blaze before any damage was done...