Word: backing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karam Singh's marathon interrogation began at 4 in the morning. He was asked to narrate the entire incident, but when he came to the point where the Chinese ambushers opened fire, the senior officer present "became wild and shouted back that it was incorrect, and that I must confess the Indians fired first." Singh at first refused. The Chinese threatened to shoot him, and "ultimately, they made me say that I could not judge at that time as to who fired first." After twelve hours of nearly continuous questioning, Karam Singh "was almost frozen and mentally and physically...
...Gospel does not tell how many Wise Men there were; according to St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine there were twelve, but tradition soon narrowed them to three-presumably because of the three gifts they brought. As far back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the gifts: gold for Christ's kingship, frankincense for his priesthood, and healing myrrh for his suffering and his role as physician to mankind. The Wise Men, or Magi, may have been members of an occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when...
Such mechanical extravagance became particularly popular in Germany. A gilded brass Krippe was presented in about 1589 to Elector Christian I by his wife, Sophia. When wound up, a globe on top opens, showing God surrounded by angels; a wall below slides back to reveal the manger, angels come down from heaven to music, Joseph rocks the cradle, the ox and ass rise from their knees, and the shepherds march in, followed by the kings...
...before Broadway audiences for the first time and gives them what they thought they had seen for the last time: the fire, drive and percussion of New York's Little Flower. "I was thunderstruck by the similarity," said Morris. Bosley reads the funnies with a perfect croak, pushes back his coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower pot, belts out campaign songs in Italian and Yiddish...
...sobbing against the piano. At Le Mans, rumors spread that she had to be taken home in an ambulance. By the time she reached Dreux she was in a limbo between sleeping and waking-taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills for some semblance of rest, taking stimulants to shock her back into the raucous nightclub world that was her life. Her manager begged her not to go on; her musicians refused to accompany her. But the dowdy, husky-voiced sob-sister from the streets of Montmartre insisted: "If you don't let me go on, I'll kill myself...