Word: shakingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...widely predicted that the committee would serve to delay significant action on the causes of student malaise. This view was understandably cynical. Many students had come to feel that the Law School's administration opposed any sort of student-initiated change. Yet it has become clear that a shake-up at the Law School--ranging from a re-evaluation of extracurricular activities to a tightening of procedures in the Placement Office--is certainly possible. A sizeable number of professor heartily sympathize with student complaints and are anxious to help the committee force action, instead of burying the issues in painful...
Rolling-Eyed Greeks. At Hotchkiss, Luce met Briton Hadden, a fiercely competitive boy from Brooklyn. Hadden became editor of the school paper; Luce (he tried to shake off the nickname "Chink") took charge of the literary magazine. Both excelled in Greek, and Hadden's fondness for such Homeric epithets as "rolling-eyed Greeks" and "far-darting Apollo" prefigured his later introduction of such double adjectives into the young TIME. The two boys did not become close friends until they reached Yale, where Hadden became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his sophomore year, an unusual honor prompted...
...part of the atomic plot and was unfairly handicapped by being forced to stand trial with the Rosenbergs. When he lost, the only tactic he had left was to attack the whole case against the Rosenbergs. If they were innocent, so was he. Thus, he tried to shake the testimony of the two conspirators who became star prosecution witnesses, even though they never had any visible connection with Sobell himself...
Strong Corroboration. To shake the Greenglass story, Sobell's lawyers attacked the Nagasaki-bomb sketch (TIME, Aug. 12) with affidavits from two ex-Manhattan Project scientists. Both scorned the sketch as amateurish, inaccurate, a naive "caricature" of the bomb, which could not possibly have aided the Russians...
...German Dancing Teachers League), has joined the anti-handshaking campaign. The committee recommends that Germans keep a tight grasp on themselves rather than on each other. Says its report: "Exaggerated handshaking is unappreciated, and in fact often makes personal contact more difficult to achieve. It is sufficient to shake hands the first time you meet...