Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accommodate out-of-office politicians accused of plotting revolution, Panama has two comfortable, specially equipped cells: one for big shots at Central Police Headquarters, the other for lesser fry in Panama City's Model Jail. Back in 1936, when Temistocles Díaz, publisher of La Nación, was arrested, he got the Class A treatment from President Harmodio Arias-the V.I.P. cell at headquarters...
...Back home in Buckingham Palace last week, Princess Margaret found her desk piled high with invitations. London's fourth society season since the war was just rounding into the straightaway and there was,a heady catalogue of entertainments in the offing: a huge ball for the twin daughters of Lady Alexandra and Major E. D. ("Fruity") Metcalfe, a rout at the Guards' Boat Club, the Cygnettes Ball and a round of parties encompassing Royal Ascot Week. It was a list to make a shopgirl's head spin. But for a princess it meant mostly that her holiday...
...deal began back in 1946 when the directors of the prosperous Churchill Downs track, home of the Kentucky Derby, set themselves up as a nonprofit corporation called the Churchill Downs Foundation. Last week, they arranged to buy the track (from themselves and a few minority stockholders). From now on, they will take no profits, pay no taxes (saving up to $40,000 a year). They plan to split the surplus left after salaries and operating expenses between the university medical school and general charities...
...glum-looking music student from Evanston, Ill. boarded a boat for Paris. She had a round-trip ticket, but was in no hurry to use the return half. Last week Gertrude O'Brady was back in Manhattan, calling up old friends with the invitation: "Come and see me, I've become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint...
...veneration of saints' relics is a pious custom of Roman Catholics, though it dates back to pre-Christian times. According to the most common theological opinion, these objects, ranging from parts of the body to bits of things the saints used, are to be honored not for themselves but as tangible reminders of the saints...