Word: carding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applauding Teacher Gayle Graner [who paddled a card-playing fourth-grader, TIME, Feb. 10], Was it not a school system that insisted on the strictest possible discipline which mass-produced Hitler's hoodlums not so long...
...play electronic bingo on the daily show, a viewer had to pick a listed phone number and write the five digits out under the letters BINGO. Then each figure was extended downward consecutively for five rows. If a player picked 7-1091, his bingo card would look like this...
...self-improvement, reformers and movie censorship ("Upon what kind of filth do these our censors feed, that they have become so pure?"). Though he draws on a subject file of 6,000 cross-indexed listings for his conversational ploys, Gibson never uses a script, a Teleprompter or an "idiot card," even ad-libs his commercials. He makes it a jaunty habit to breeze into the radio studio scant seconds before air time, hits his chair talking...
...send some silk ties to famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson, whom she and Getty had just visited while preparing their book, Collector's Choice, a well-reviewed narrative of their hunt for art treasures. Getty caught Collaborator Le Vane writing "From Paul and Ethel" on the accompanying card. He immediately demanded that she pay half the cost of the ties, on the ground that she was getting half the credit for the gift...
Wire Service. In London, a survey published by Lloyd's Bank on the fate of 100,000 paper clips revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...