Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Still," replied Ilka Chase (the cruel stepmother), "it's a shame to spend so much time for just one 1½-hour show." Said Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, the Fairy Godmother: "Why, Ed Sullivan has just one full rehearsal and you NEVER know-where you are." She twirled a baton-"Gotta get in shape with my magic wand" -then skipped off to sing her one number, Impossible ("for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage...
...Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...
...usual remedies for such difficulties are to cut expenditures or raise taxes. Instead the Socialist government has chosen an easy way to manage its debts. Two weeks ago, to help finance oil imports, a group of French banks negotiated a $100 million loan from a U.S. syndicate headed by Chase Manhattan Bank. Last week Ramadier himself introduced a $285 million government bond issue on terms so generous that it will cost the government $20 million a year in interest and bonuses, and investors lucky enough to hold the first bonds retired stand to earn a fat 15% on their money...
...Haze by a middle-aged European emigre in the U.S. named Humbert Humbert. The lurch toward the farcical, implicit in the hero's name, sets the mood and tempo of the entire work. The first of the novel's two volumes becomes an elaborately breakneck, amorally funny chase that mixes the Marx Brothers with Krafft-Ebing. This blurs but does not erase the underlying sensuality of Humbert's admittedly perverse tastes, for he is drawn only to what he calls "nymphets"-near-adolescent girls of mysterious characteristics and an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm." The insidious...
...Delany of Villanova doggedly came from behind with a crowd-rousing sprint to win the exhausting two-mile event in the record time of 9:06.6, thereby became I.C-4-A's first such double winner. Olympic Champ Delany, the world's top miler, passed up his specialty to chase the extra points that came with two victories and cinched the team title for Villanova...