Word: carding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...space satellite, Explorer V, into orbit to measure lethal solar rays in outer space. Three and a half hours later, the Army glumly announced that the rocket's upper stages had somehow malfunctioned, that Explorer V was not in orbit. Army's space score card to date: three satellites in-orbit in five tries...
...Cafe Keepers and Circus Performers." He himself became its candidate for President of Germany, but withdrew from the race "to give Field Marshal von Hindenburg a chance." To any doubters among those who gathered daily around his house trailer in Sankt Pauli, Otto Witte would produce his official identity card issued by the Berlin police, stating that its holder was "a circus entertainer" and "onetime King of Albania." He refused to accept any mail that was not properly addressed to "Otto I, ex-King of Albania...
...highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
...king of clubs, discard West's losing dia mond on the jack of hearts). The payoff decision was Goren's final pass. At most other tables, West doubled the five-spade bid - naturally enough, since West held 15 of the deck's 40 high-card points (according to the Goren system of counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren, on the safe-side assumption that either North or South was void in clubs ("I had a strong suspicion my ace of clubs would not live...
...City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach ulcer from each of three studios...