Word: anterooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to allow two Austrian nationalists to enter the disputed region to help the German-speaking population celebrate the150th anniversary of a Tyrolean uprising against Napoleon, Austria called home its ambassador to Rome. Viennese newspapers said he had been "insulted" by being forced to cool his heels in an anteroom of the Italian Foreign Office. White-stockinged Tyroleans from the Austrian side, who look so gay in the travel posters, staged a grim memorial service outside Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral...
...Neurology, which usually attracts an attendance of about 60. But the 220 seats in Fitkin Amphitheater at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital were nothing like enough: eager auditors overflowed onto the floor and sat literally at the speaker's feet; standees jammed the back of the hall, an anteroom and stairways. The word they had come to hear was entitled "Contributions of Existential Psychoanalysis." The speaker: Manhattan's Psychoanalyst Rollo May. His audience included, besides the association's hard core of psychiatrists, many members of Yale's faculties of psychiatry, psychology, philosophy and divinity, and enough...
...Anteroom Note. Everyone involved in the scandal suddenly became so tight-mouthed and empty-headed that neither networks nor sponsor nor Dotto's owner (Frank Cooper Associates) seemed to know enough between them to rate a spot on the show. But despite the determined silences, the story leaked...
Waiting nervously in a studio anteroom one morning, a Dotto stand-by contestant had noticed a woman contestant, already a steady winner, stealthily studying a set of notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale: someone was feeding the woman advance information. Her answers were all prepared; she could not lose. The stand-by rushed to a Dotto bigwig with the incriminating evidence and peddled his promise of silence...
...writhed her swivel-hipped way across the crowded foyer of a posh London hotel, suddenly found her strapless, skinlike gown at half mast when its key stitches gave way. Reported a lady eyewitness: "Under it was-just Anita." With a pretty display of shocked modesty, Anita repaired to an anteroom for repairs, cooed later: "I like tight dresses, but after this, well...