Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Hemisphere. On two Mondays every month, the Corporation (including President Pusey and Treasurer Paul Cabot ex officio) meets and argues out the problems until decisions can be approved with complete unanimity. Yet the Corporation is an empire that includes an endowment of $326 million, bonds in Baton Rouge sewers and Oklahoma highways, an island off the coast of Maine, stocks in every sort of industry from groceries (A. & P.) to beer (Jacob Ruppert) to General Motors...
...MOORE Baton Rouge...
...expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale. It was the biggest mass merchandising of such bric-a-brac in nearly two centuries. Egypt needs the money for a hydroelectric dam and for land reform...
...spectacles just before he administered the downbeat. But although his figure was bent with age, it still bent flexibly with the music. His left hand, which he sometimes used to hold the podium rail, stiffly waved, patted and sliced the air while the world's most expressive baton all but drew pictures of the sounds he wanted. The orchestra played its heart out, and the soloists and chorus outdid themselves, actually made the old war horse sound like a Class One opera...
Jack Richards led off in third place and gave the baton to Rennie Little, who moved to a close second. Alan Howe, who had previously been edged out by Stove Wilkey of tufts in the Farrell 500-yard race, old the position until he passed to Alpers. Alpers then sprinted past the Tigera' Dick Yaffa...