Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, the festival's sponsors chose to drop Blackboard from the program. But MGM's Dore Schary raged: "What Ambassador Luce has done represents flagrant political censorship." Italy's Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
Despite his visual alternative, Observer Jose ("Joe") Holguin chose to strike at Sacramento by radar. Twenty-five miles from the target, Major Holguin, at his bombsight controls up forward, became the key man in the City of Merced: Beau Traylor had only to maintain air speed. His face glued to the radarscope and its tireless, swinging line of light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From...
...school." The nature of the problem was soon evident. Leading art critics can get together on only eight paintings as definitely Giorgione's.* But Venice's first call produced some 700 offers of Giorgionesque paintings from private collections. Faced with this embarrassment of riches, the Venice committee chose 136 oils, attributed only 62 of them to Giorgione or his anonymous followers. Even of these, one called The Three Ages of Man, from Florence's Pitti Gallery, has been attributed at various times to Lotto, Morto da Feltre, Pier Mario Pennacchi, Francesco Torbido, Giambellino, an anonymous Venetian...
Berber Submission. The horsemen brought news that the Smala tribe wanted to surrender. For the formal submission ceremony, Colonel Boreill chose a huge wheat field near a place called Tired Men's Well. Next day, the French tanks were drawn up in a huge U. Long lines of Berher tribesmen filed in between them. Their women and children came with them, many carrying flags. The most important of the Berber Caids (local chiefs) arrived in a Chevrolet...
...favorite method of impressing the voters is to grab for headlines; before the last election, Capitol Hill newsmen informally chose him as the Congressman with the most press releases. He once said that the recipe for success in Congress is to exhibit "the brashness of a sophomore . . . the perseverance of a bill collector." Last week, in the news vacuum that followed Congress' adjournment, Congressman Celler was exhibiting all the brashness and perseverance that he could muster...