Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Here the listening Congress realized that it was back on familiar ground. And when Truman added "at present, largely because of the ill-considered tax reduction of the 80th Congress, the Government is not receiving enough revenue to meet its necessary expenditures," a booming guffaw came from deep in the Republican ranks on Truman's left...
What really worries Dr. Seliger is the in-between group of heavy social drinkers. Increasing in numbers, he says, they are a danger for three reasons: 1) they get themselves and their friends into jams; 2) they are bad accident risks; and 3) they make a training ground for chronic alcoholics. "Many business leaders, professional men and high-powered executives [are] in this medical bracket...
...course there is little resemblance between this movie and the original play by Gogol. There is little meeting ground between Russian drama and Kaye with his capers and patter songs and mugging. But this is beside the point--Danny Kaye has always stood on his own feet...
Theatergoing in Boston is unlike theatergoing in other cities, excepting perhaps that in Philadelphia and New Haven. It can be very advantageous. Last March, or instance, any Bostonian with a couple of bucks and a good car to the ground could have done what many New Yorkers still can not do: get a ticket for "South Pacific." But if he had been a diligent theatergoer, chances are that he would have already paid out a small fortune for a whole string of duds last season before being rewarded with "South Pacific...
...students living above the ground floor of non-fire proof dormitories (Grays, Hollis, Holworthy, Matthews, Stoughton, Thayer, and Weld) will report to the Indoor Athletic Building between January 9 and January 18 for practice in the use of fire ropes...