Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could be taken to mean one thing only," nowadays a man never can tell. So, while Marie cooks, her visitor paces. Staring through the window, he spots "two slack dead pairs of men's socks" on a laundry cord-and instantly he is jealous...
...years Businessman E. L. Cord talked rarely and acted boldly; as a result, out of ships, airplanes, automobiles and real estate, Cord built a financial empire. Starting in 1956, he also got his feet wet in Nevada politics (as a state senator), and enjoyed the sensation. By last spring, as a result, a new empire was shaping up. A Cord machine dominated the state Democratic convention, paved the path for Errett Lobban Cord to become governor (TIME...
...apparently Businessman Cord forgot that successful politicians talk often and act cautiously. Cord somehow never filed for governor, gave no reason, left an impression that his health was poor. Incautiously he backed lackluster Harvey Dickerson, 53, Nevada attorney general and a habitual also-ran, for the governor's nomination, unabashedly poured an estimated $75,000 into Dickerson's campaign. When enterprising Dickerson Opponent Grant Sawyer, Elko County district attorney, cried that Cord was buying the governor's mansion just as he had bought corporations, tight-lipped Politician Cord ignored the charge. The impression took root; by last...
...taxicabs on Chicago's South Side, onetime football fullback; she for the second time, he for the first; in a City Hall ceremony, in Chicago. Witness: Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie. The bride wore a white trapeze dress and green shoes. The witness wore a brown-and-white cord suit, pink shirt, red-and-black tie, and, on his head, a diamond-patterned, black-and-white tarboosh...
...much of the pain and fear of childbirth can be eliminated with proper psychological and physical training. In return, he gets only scorn and a Greek chorus of old wives' tales-for example, if a pregnant woman crosses her legs, she will strangle her child with the umbilical cord. His one believer is an unwed pregnant farm girl, played (except at the birth, when the camera focuses on an anonymous mother) with translucent charm by Nicole Courcel, whose pain-free delivery provides the doctor with his triumph and the film with its spectacular ending. Thus it becomes a warm...