Word: aire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Particularly effective is Holbrook's timing. He takes time out to light a fresh cigar, flick some ashes off, or just blow smoke into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And, after the first punch line, Holbrook often takes a second puff or so, followed by another line, inciting a fresh burst of laughter...
HONG KONG AIR ROUTE will be approved for Northwest Airlines in near future by British government. Service will start immediately thereafter. Northwest won CAB approval to extend its transpacific route from Tokyo to Hong Kong after British opposition was overcome by President Eisenhower's approval for BOAC to add a San Francisco-Tokyo leg to its round-the-world flights...
...York's Idlewild international airport, once a shantytown of jumbled wooden buildings, is rapidly taking shape as the world's best-as well as biggest-air terminal. Last week Eastern Air Lines opened a $20 million, four-acre terminal, the largest ever built for use of a single airline. Last month United Airlines opened its $14.5 million terminal. By 1963 U.S. lines will build five more of their own terminals, completing Idlewild's $150 million decentralized Terminal City passenger complex...
Stern spirits by the thousandfold . . . Then, with the air of a minstrel who stills his lute and steps forward to address his audience, Graves breaks into prose: "You wish to know which of the gods originated the quarrel between these Greek princes, and how this happened? I can tell...
...Institute Committee, Sprague continued, is a peculiarly conservative organization, "with members who prefer not to air their beliefs publicly" The Committee's attitude toward NSA, he said, was best summarized by one member's assertion that, "We don't really care how NSA votes on the atomic bomb tests, we just don't want them to vote...