Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admen don't spend funds for nothing. Just why praise from this clump of wives should be the gospel of the casual dustcloth-needing shopper I do not know. Nor do I know why the testimonial of a physicist, even a Nobel Prize physicist, on juridical subjects deserves news column space. The comparison may seem ludicrous, but accepting one is as sensible as accepting the other. Really, the housewives are better qualified to make a pragmatic judgement on household paraphernalia than the physicist a judgement on a legal matter, seeing that the US District Court, the Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Raiders. The Israeli band, an estimated 200, burst across the border in three columns. One drove swiftly to the diesel pumping station, which supplies a major part of Gaza's water, and blew it up. While the center column attacked Captain Sadek's men, the third slipped along the railway track, fell upon the Egyptian barracks from the rear, and blew its steel-and-concrete buildings into twisted ruins. In the railway station, the marauders found two civilians. They shot them dead...
...country editor, Leroy Gore, 50, did so well running Midwest papers that he was able to start the Sauk-Prairie Star in Sauk City, Wis. in 1952. Editor Gore filled the Star with tried-and-true reader-catching personals, a homespun "Star Dust'' column, and two columns of editorials under a good-humored standing slogan (H. L. Mencken's "Every little squirt thinks he's a fountain of wisdom"). The Star's circulation climbed to 3,200, and the paper turned a neat profit...
Michigan's defense system, although frequently altered because of the numerous penalties, usually consisted of a straight column of players, stretched across the rink, and proved to be amazingly effective...
...Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida lifted her mask for a better look at a fur-clad stranger, soon recognized her as U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, fresh from business in Bologna (see EDUCATION). As guest of honor, Gina was proclaimed the "Space Girl of 1954." Translation: she filled more column-inches in foreign publications than any other Italian last year...