Word: colorations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problems caused by the. blackout, it brought at least one strange and encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said...
...Mario can trust to love him for love alone. Reason: she is stone deaf. That is, until she has that operation, "dangerously close to the brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director Rudi (Dodsworth) Mate has managed to extract a jigger of humor from a magnum of slush. When Mario protests the presence of reporters at what was to be an intimate little party, Zsa Zsa says: "But dahr-link, deese...
Along a carnival-like half-mile of self-service counters and dashing pushcarts sat Tiki gods and aloha shirts, maki sushi and hibiscus plants. Through the aisles milled thousands of customers as varied and colorful as the more than 10,000 items stacked neatly on the shelves. They bore in their faces the mien and colors of all the Orient, wore cool-looking shorts, dresses and muumuus of every bright color, stepped lightly in street shoes, sandals, even bare feet. Thus last week, in casual Hawaiian fashion, the newest citizens of the U.S. welcomed the newest branch...
...Davis Cup Tennis (NBC, 5-7 p.m.). A chance to see what the latest TV gimmicks can mean to sport reporting. The doubles, recorded in color on videotape. (Singles, 4 .p.m. Sunday...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The prima ballerina does a pratfall onstage. But her reputation is saved: it's murder. Cow-eyed Comedian Morey Amsterdam bounces through the rerun of Dance of Death with the graceful assistance of Ballerina Tamara Geva. Color...