Word: cue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tune, Hurrah for Our National Game (1896), sums up the feeling of America's early baseball fans: The Gamester may boast of the pleasures of play, The Billiardist brag of his cue, The Horse jocky gabble of next racing...
...tuba, for 20 minutes. By the time they got onstage, both Catelinet and his instrument (which, like all cussed brasses, needs a lot of last-minute tootling to warm it up) had a case of chills. The orchestra broke into the concerto, and the tuba came in disconcertingly off cue. The whole first movement, in fact, sounded as if there were pigeons in the brass, alas...
...Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek for boy. Taking his cue from the tablets' pictures, Ventris tried other combinations. To his delight, the tablets at last began to make sense...
...Snakes & I. At the Irish Fellowship Club's St. Patrick's Day dinner, McCarthy took his cue from the toastmaster, who said the Senator was driving the snakes from America. McCarthy snorted: "The snakes didn't like St. Patrick's methods, and the Communists don't like mine." Fighting to divert attention from Cohn and Schine, whom he did not mention, McCarthy blasted out at various villains whom he identified as "eggheads," "deluded liberals," "the left-wing press," "the jackal pack," "Pentagon politicians...
...million new units a year was to be achieved primarily through community and private enterprise, stimulated by government loans and mortgage insurance. Building, as such, was to have a minimal role in the program, for use only in emergency situations. The party leaders in Congress have apparently taken their cue from the White House and carried the logic just one step further. Outdoing the "Businessman's Administration," they assume that private industry and the local community can do all the building...