Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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God and Mammon have long been partners in Kyoto, whose centuries-old Buddhist and Shinto temples are a potent magnet for worshipers and sightseers from all over the world, but changing times have exacted a telling strain on the partnership. When they were cut off from government subsidy by the...
¶Curiously, equal total audiences of 32.1 million U.S. homes viewed each of the conventions, more than twice the number that saw the 1952 shows. This meant that 88% of all TV homes saw one or more sessions of each convention over one of the three chains. Daily audiences ranged...
Radio also boasted a sizable turnout: ¶Twenty-one million U.S. families listened to some part of the Democratic Convention. Homes tuning in averaged 6 hrs. 1 min. each. During the shorter G.O.P. week the total audience hit 15.6 million homes, for a listening average of 3 hrs. 23 min...
Truman admitted that his August behavior hurt him. Before the convention he told reporters, "Someone is going to get the "!*?- knocked out of him." A few days after the convention he conceded, "It was me." Most politicans agree that Truman took a beating, yet they still put in request after...
With the score tied at 6-6, early in the period, Tufts had a fourth down and five to go on the H. 45 yard line. Every football convention calls for a punt in that situation, and Thompson lined up in a punt formation, but instead, he took the snap...