Word: cue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breckbill, pastor of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Altoona, Pa., asked for an appointment with the President, he was turned down. The White House reply: Truman has made up his mind on the Vatican issue, and the council had better go on over to Congress. Taking the cue, the pilgrims held a mass meeting in the lobby of the Washington Hotel and prayed for the success of their mission. Then, wearing large green lapel discs proclaiming "Keep church and state separate," they marched on Capitol Hill. Texas' Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee...
Waiting in the wings for her first cue, the pretty Viennese soprano vibrated like a violin string. Back in Vienna, she had heard that the Metropolitan was a harsh house, so big that a singer could not move around onstage without sacrificing her voice. The hallowed ghosts of the Met were all around her. How would she measure up to the great Gildas of the past-Sembrich, Melba, Galli-Curci...
Truman took the cue, but he abandoned McKinney's reformer line. Instead of showing indignation at the evildoers, the President seemed to have saved it for the U.S. press; his main points at the conference were to minimize the scandals and to insist that his Administration, not congressional committees, deserved the credit for what housecleaning has been done. In answering Reporter Folliard, he said that continued drastic action was a better phrase than drastic action. There is really nothing unusual or new in the current situation in Washington. This sort of thing is going on all the time. Some...
Eddie Bursk started things off with a pin, and varsity matmen took his cue and went on to crush the Terriers by taking seven out of eight matches, six of them on falls. It was the second straight win for the Crimson...
Although the National conventions a still eight months off, local Taft at Eisenhower supporters are taking a cue from the activity of national organizations on behalf of their favorites. The organization of an "Ike for President Club, under the leadership of members the Law School, was announced sever weeks ago, while this past Tuesday notice rabid G.O.P.'s invited those interested to participate in a "Taft of President" Club...