Word: halo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choke off such loose talk Seattle last week opened a lip-zippering campaign. Its slogan: '"Halo Wawa!"-a Chinook phrase meaning, approximately, "I don't talk...
Martin Van Buren sits in repose, a white tie and high collar at his throat, his white hair like a halo around his balding old head, white sideburns creeping down his pink cheeks. Grover Cleveland leans back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait...
First speaker of the evening, Thomson, teaching fellow in Government, called for realism in dealing with Russia, saying "There is no use pinning a halo on Uncle Joe Stalin." He suggested that the Soviet Union may become as militaristic as Germany...
...liven things up, she decides to summon from Philadelphia the family's favorite relative, tall, handsome Uncle Charlie (Joseph Gotten). But Uncle Charlie, for reasons of his own, is already on the way. He arrives with a large, comfortable halo of presents, money and avuncular good humor. The rest of the family lionizes Uncle. The girl begins to feel a sense of menace...
General Giraud had the good fortune to be a prisoner of Germany after the fall of France. By preventing him from taking a definite stand either for or against the Vichy regime, this event allowed the General to preserve the halo of purity and personal integrity which still surround him. On the other hand, he has not yet shown by any concrete act that he unconditionally favors the cause of the United Nations. On the contrary, by surrounding himself with such men as pro-Vichy Nogues and Boisson, he has created a definite doubt as to whether he is potentially...