Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present heyday of high pressure University dining halls where diners are dealt with the speed of a card simile, leisure and elegance are otter deemed obstructions to progress. In this utilitarian atmosphere, the Lowell House High Table, a very elegant and leisurely formal dinner of the House's master, tutors, and invited Seniors (chosen in rotation) comes as a curious anomaly...
LABOR. The Taft-Hartley law will have to be dealt with. There are signs that this issue may not be explosive. In 1949, Senator Taft agreed to 28 clarifying amendments, but labor then was fighting for outright repeal as a symbolic goal. Last week A.F.L. President George Meany, filled with what seemed to be a cooperative spirit, said he is now willing to settle for amendment rather than repeal...
...took to a life of cadge-as-cadge-can until he got a second chance at Orders in the Scots College in Rome. There he sported a rich repertory of ecclesiastical jokes, ran up bills with a tailor, was expelled again as "lacking vocation." Convinced he had been dealt foul, Rolfe cursed the Church and went on cursing it energetically for the rest of his life-while remaining a Catholic. He borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back...
...rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied the whole business before the grand jury. But six days later he admitted all. He had dealt with Strollo after all, but he had only gone to see Strollo for civic good-the way "Roosevelt went to see Stalin," he said. He had been ashamed to admit it, "because all my life I have been clean." Chauffeur Jordan had a different story: the mayor had wept...
...brazenly ordered a "more correct" count. Last week he was able to announce that his official party had won a sweeping majority in the new constituent assembly. Only one electoral problem remained in the way of his expected election as President by the assembly next month, and the colonel dealt firmly with that...