Word: agog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golden N. Commander Anderson flew back to a Washington that was soon agog with suspense. Reason: White House Press Secretary James Hagerty was planning a showcase presentation, warned newsmen to be on hand at the White House for a major story "with the President participating." Nautilus' Anderson went to the White House, briefed the President for 25 minutes. Then the President, Anderson and his wife Bonnie, and a small group of Navy and Atomic Energy Commission brasshats formed up before 75 newsmen in the White House conference room. (Not invited and thus snubbed: A-Sub Pioneer Rickover, whose prickly...
...three months political India has been agog over a scandal centering around one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal aides, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and one of Nehru's pet Socialist projects, the newly nationalized Life Insurance Corp. The scandal broke last November when Nehru's son-in-law, Feroze Gandhi,* rose in Parliament and asked the minister a pointed question: Had the new corporation used the premium payments of India's 5,500,000 life-insurance policyholders to buy up shares at above-market prices in companies controlled by a notorious stock speculator named...
...Colonial countries, agog at the amount of U.S. food production, do not even imagine that they can compete with the U.S. We have dared challenge the U.S., before whose moneybags all capitalist powers dither and toady. Our program will again clear the way in consciousness of those people who vacillate and have not yet taken up our ideology. I am not speaking of capitalists-it is impossible to re-educate them. The grave is the only cure for hunchbacks. This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S. in per capita production of meat...
...Edens stayed overnight. Next day it was publicly announced that the Queen was returning to London. Suddenly, all Whitehall was agog...
Manhattan gossipists worked hard to fill the gaps made in their columns by the departure for Hollywood of robustious (40-18-35½) Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield. With a truffle hound's nose for publicity, Jayne quickly set filmland agog by flapping her charms at anyone who could rush her into print or picture. Lunching with the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywood Legman Joe Hyams, Jayne, bubbling over her first film stardom ("Everybody calls me Miss Mansfield") in a movie to be released under the titillating title of The Girl...