Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hundred feet or so under College ground lies the Cambridge "water level". Those old timers of the of the local maintenance departments who have encountered it call it "Creeping Sam" because it has no fixed bounds and shows up where it is least wanted and expected...
...President's compulsory plan promises unlimited health services. Organized medicine sponsors the limited liability which Blue Cross-Blue Shield has proven practical. Therefore low-cost insurance against catastrophic illness, child bearing and malignant disease is the sensible middle ground . . . THOMAS E. MATTINGLY, M.D. Washington...
Precision Tools. There Sherman became an on-the-ground leader in the cold war, learned the uses of naval forces as "the precision tools of diplomacy." He flung 80 planes over Italy at election time. His ships visited North African ports, dropped in at Naples, Trieste and Athens. Sherman took tea with Britain's Earl Mountbatten, visited the Pope, swam with Greece's King Paul and his Queen...
...humorists. There was, of course, occasional bitterness and strong division of opinion. But the senses of the meeting was clear-people saw the town as a business enterprise to be conservatively managed. The spokesman for the Finance Committee summed it up: "We want to keep our feet on the ground and our hands on our pocketbook...
...worst fire in Harvard history inspired these lines by an unknown author, as he described a blaze that burned old Harvard Hall to the ground on the night of January...