Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry L. McCarthy, New York City's Commissioner of Welfare, ruled that the show needs a city license as a welfare agency because of its "public solicitation of money," and ordered an examination of Strike It Rich's books and records. McCarthy also fired a blast at the show for luring to Manhattan a swarm of unfortunates who, failing to get on the program, must then apply for public relief. Meanwhile, Travelers Aid denounced the show as a "headache" and reported that the society received as many as five appeals a day from frustrated contestants whose woes were...
Comedian Skelton is cast as Ambrose, a second-chisel man in a big Manhattan jewelry store, a diamond cutter whose tragedy is that he just buffs up the big ones for somebody else to blast. The big one in question is a stupendous rock called "The Blue Goddess." and some chiselers of another sort than Ambrose are interested in her. A foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist...
Weeks of toil had produced brilliant snow statues in front of each fraternity house. And on the insides all was heat and clean, ready for the weekend blast and the serious business of having the good time that has been planned and looked forward to all fall...
...electing its own representatives (whom he would control) without reference to Awolowo, in whose territory it sits. Lyttelton gave his blessing to the idea of a Nigerian D.C., and the result was that Dr. Zik suddenly proclaimed himself an "I-Like-Lyttelton" man. Awolowo's reaction was to blast the burly Tory as "a Machiavellian divider and ruler," and to threaten to pull Yoru-baland out of the federation...
...constitute foreign interference in the domestic affairs of Italy," and trumpeted for an investigation. The official Communist L'Unità joined in. accused the Ambassador of "espionage." called her "an old lady who needs rest to calm her nerves." The Red Socialist Avanti chimed in with its own blast: the U.S. Ambassador is in reality "Senator Joe McCarthy's Rome agent in charge of witch hunting." What the hue & cry is about: the Ambassador is empowered to negotiate arrangements which will keep U.S. offshore procurement contracts out of factories dominated by Communist unions...