Word: tieing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute for Men's Fashion complained that he had prescribed "dark suit" rather than "white tie" for the inaugural reception that followed the telecast. "I have advised Dr. Liibke not to knuckle down to the dictatorship of associations, no matter who they...
Last year the team had a dismal record of two wins, four defeats and a tie. This season things could well be worse, and they may never get better, for the idea of recruiting a solid tackle or slithering halfback is out of the question. But the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's new coach was content. "Believe me," said Otto Graham, "I couldn't have picked out a better spot if I had sat down and studied offers for two or three years...
...same all along the Khrushchev banquet circuit, from white tie to rolled sleeves, from the White House to Manhattan, to San Francisco, Des Moines and Pittsburgh. In San Francisco, demands for tickets to the Commonwealth Club's banquet were matching Franklin Roosevelt's historic appearance in 1932. Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom was booked solid for the mayor's lunch (and a visiting convention of dentists, with a prior booking for the ballroom, was not too sure it was going to give up its rights) and again for a dinner sponsored by the Economic Club...
...Baccalaureate sermon of 1954 he declared: "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for a special privilege...
...week's most novel performance, the President and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan, in black tie before dinner at No. 10 Downing Street, sat down before British TV cameras for a 20-minute chat on a Britain-wide and Europe-wide hookup. Estimated audience: 20 million-plus. Macmillan, calling his friend of 17 years "Mr. President," congratulated him on his plan to exchange visits with Nikita Khrushchev-"sound contribution to peace." The President, calling the Prime Minister "Prime Minister" and "Harold," said that "Anglo-American relations have never been stronger and better than they...