Word: crimping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway production was as intimate as a hotfoot; the Goldwyn movie takes a blowtorch full of Eastman Color and stereophonic sound to get the same reaction. More specifically, a couple of the principals do not quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes tends to be flat...
...parley at the summit put a crimp in Labor's attempt to show themselves more appalled than the Tories by the H-bomb...
...kind of burglar alarm, just patented last week, has already put a crimp in the burglar business. Developed by Samuel Bagno and manufactured by the Alertronic Corp. of Long Island City, the Alertronic alarm has one or more "loudspeakers" that generate sound waves with a frequency of 19,000 cycles a sec. This is too high-pitched for normal human ears, whose upper limit is about 18,000 cycles a sec., so the office or bank protected by Alertronic seems silent to a burglar, although every cubic inch of its air is in rapid vibration...
...South Africa last week, the supreme court put a crimp in apartheid, the system of rigid racial segregation by which Prime Minister Daniel Malan hopes forever to separate 2,600,000 whites from four times their number of nonwhites. A Cape Town Negro named George Lusu had been arrested and tried for sitting down in a railroad waiting room marked "Whites Only." Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres delivered the majority verdict: "The State has provided a railroad service for all its citizens, irrespective of race . . . Segregation is [legal] but it could be and should be exercised without members...
...senior Republican Senator, Styles Bridges has gone after the Fair Deal with better effect. From his vantage point on the Senate Appropriations Committee, he has put a crimp in several of Harry Truman's expansive budgets, and led G.O.P. attacks on Dean Acheson and the Administration's Far East policy...