Word: accordions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped out of the Korean fire to cover the Middle East's sizzling frying pan. He cabled: "I've added 42 pages to my passport's normal 48 pages. Security functionaries in this part of the world love my passport. They play it like an accordion. I've made eight trips to Iran, seven to Egypt, six to Syria, three each to Turkey and Iraq, two each to Greece and Bahrein, one each to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... My wife wistfully wishes she'd married a traveling salesman...
...singing was done by an on-stage group of "Christian Youth." As a group the "Youth" averaged about forty years old--a lone teenager clasped his hands to his face and shook nervously during the first hymn. (During the second hymn he bolted into the wings.) There was an accordion number next, rendered by two girls in white. One of them announced in a flat monotone that she was "shout in' happy this afternoon because all the Lord has to do is close his hands and the whole of this big theatre will be crushed." At this point a young...
...Boyle strode confidently into the small third-floor Capitol committee room of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. For 20 minutes the photographers and newsreel cameramen hovered around him. He smiled a relaxed smile for the lenses, his broad Irish face showing few signs of his 49 years, except for an accordion-like rippling of chins. North Carolina's pale old Senator Clyde Hoey, Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, arrived promptly at hearing time, smiling and looking more than ever like Arthur Train's unforgettable Mr. Tutt in his dark frock coat and customary red boutonniere. Arkansas Democrat John McClellan...
...zone. Two men had been wounded and one was finished off by "shots at the forehead." Alan Winnington, Communist correspondent of the London Daily Worker, invited three U.N. reporters and a U.N. officer to attend the dead hero's funeral. There were wreaths and silken banners, speeches and accordion music-but no casket. North Korea's Nam II was there, impassively smoking...
...Browns' games was. 'Drink on the House" day; fans turned out to guzzle 6,041 soft drinks and 7.596 bottles of beer. The next Veeck inspiration was a team band: Pitchers Al Widmar on bull fiddle and Satchel Paige on drums, Coach Ed Redys on accordion, in a concert at home plate...