Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excite the same veneration or project the same mood there that she does in Britain. Shortly after Ghana's independence, Prime Minister Nkrumah substituted his own picture for the Queen's on postage stamps. He explained disarmingly: "Many of my people cannot read or write. When they buy stamps, they will see my picture -an African like themselves-and they will say, 'Aiee, look, here is my leader on the stamps. We are truly a free people!'" Other African leaders have given fair warning that, "if it is ever a choice between loyalty to Africa...
...people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend the revolution." His Agrarian Reform Institute boss, Antonio Núñez Jiménez, a longtime Communist-liner, said opponents should "buy a plane and fly out of the country before the people give them what they deserve...
...world. With prices rising, beef consumption is down 40%, capital district retail sales 60%, attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital goods to raise production has depressed the peso, which hit an alltime low of no a dollar a fortnight ago before climbing back to 86. But the encouragement to export, and the discouragement of imports, is getting results. In the first four months of 1959, Argentina earned $102 million...
Listeners curious to hear how Sammy Davis might have sounded if he had been included in the sound-track album can buy a Decca collection of excerpts, with Davis assisted by Carmen McRae. Both singers have a taste for vibrato, gratuitous grunts and wailing crescendos that achieve the remarkable effect of smearing some of the most singable lines ever written. On a United Artists album, Diahann Carroll, who appears as Clara in the movie, gets a chance to sing her own part and a number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director...
...anything." Seeing her on the screen, Scenarist Dwight Taylor (Top Hat) was reminded of his mother, the late famed Actress Laurette Taylor. "The comparison is irresistible," he wrote Director Minnelli. "There are only a few over the years who can say 'I'm going out to buy a can of pork and beans' and find you choking up. Judy Holliday has a lot of that. And Shirley Booth's voice has some of it. But if I had a choice of a performance I'd want my mother to see-if she could come back...