Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million compensation for 1) expropriated British-owned rural property, and 2) "damage" to sequestrated urban properties now to be returned to their owners. Afterward, going over the papers its negotiators had initialed, the Treasury in London "noticed that some figures didn't seem to be in the right column." Among other things, Smouha City was classified as farm land...
McClellan turned in undoubtedly his best game of the season, notching 17 points--12 of them in the second frame--to lead both teams in the scoring column. Also, his rebounding was much sharper and more energetic than on any previous occasion this season...
...three-column editorial headed "The Perfidious Policy of Iran," Pravda roared that the Shah's "two-faced dealings" would earn him the same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...
Writer Emmett Watson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (circ. 196.955) had trouble built into his weekly column. While it read like a gossip column, it was actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve...
...Hecht, Cecil B. DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape of the War to Come). With a conviction that modern music was "intellectualized" and "quibbling," he returned to composition with fresh regard for the romantic and heroic, turned out operas and symphonies that...