Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came the wondrous news. A rescuer at the 13,000-ft. level heard a faint call from the broken end of a compressed-air pipe sticking from the rubble. He yelled back, heard an answering croak: "There are twelve of us in here. Come and get us.'' That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel...
...Russians' fault at all and added that "the Hungarian issue is a phony one." With that, a contagious snarl spread through his audience; but no one could really take the old man too seriously. Said the Washington News: "One more trip to Russia and he'll come back believing the Commies invented Lake Erie...
...Manhattan with a new play, Britain's Angry Young Success John Osborne looked back with pleasure on his previous record with U.S. critics. "I've actually been more respected here," said the 28-year-old playwright of The Entertainer and Look Back in Anger. "At home I feel like Julius Caesar going into the Forum . . . In this American century-because it has the American look and the American accent-the cry at home now is that I've sold out to the Yankee dollar...
...sharpshooting comedians, frozen-faced Ed Sullivan himself is separated from a smile or two, notably when Friar "Abbot" Joe E. Lewis describes him as the "only fellow who can light a room up-just by leaving it." The smile actually broadens a bit when M.C. Jack Carter snaps back: "Lewis is more than a Friar. He's really a stewing chicken." Between Rocky Graziano's remote snuffles and Jack E. Leonard's belligerent groans, the show seldom slows down. Comedian Joey Bishop's brief speech moves the audience to a fine double take once everyone realizes...
From Mary's 104° fever and other signs, Field Physician Garfield Fred Burkhardt suspected meningitis, probably tuberculous-a disease that was invariably fatal until twelve years ago. He plunged a needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...