Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Britons what they could not have. It was not Cripps's fault that meat was scarce but many Britons blamed him for that when he looked coldly through his half-moon glasses and announced that he did not consider meat "an edible substance." His very name suggested the sound of a crunching cold raw carrot, which was, in fact, one of Vegetarian Cripps's favorite staples...
...fuse for the big weekend firecracker will be lit immediately after this afternoon's game, with a mass meeting of all Dartmouth, men in Harvard Square. The giant really, details of which were not announced until late last night, will be led by a WDES sound truck. Coulter urged that all attend the really, stating that "it will be full of surprises...
...playwright who loves darkly the denotation, the connotation, and the sound of his words. "Tedium, tedium. . . tee-de-um, tee-de-um," Gielgud muses, and there can be no doubt about what he means and how he feels. Fry makes exuberant use of images, such as this description of a shooting star; "an excess of phlegm in the solar system coursing toward a heavenly spittoon." As Mendip himself says, "what a wonderful thing is metaphor...
...Acheson Plan of calling the General Assembly to action in an emergency appears sound. It will bypass the Soviet veto in the Security Council, and thus make the U.N. effective in handling the really important international problems. But it is obvious that troop support for the U. N. will have to come largely from the big powers, no matter how many nations are involved in U. N. Police actions...
...office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert on anthropology . . . declared that the bean pot was definitely authentic and 'at least 50 years old . . .' " Following the sound rule of never trying to make a chump of a city editor, Wood also candidly tipped the city desks that it was just a polite hoax...