Word: cue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman dresses as Cleopatra and the sophomore appropriately as General MacAnthony. When the General says, "I'm just an old sophomore spading away," that's the cue for the freshman class president to lead her class in a race against the sophomores to the secret location of the newly planted tree. If a freshman gets there first, her whole class can rightfully sing its cheers for the first time...
...resolution, expressing it as the sense of the Senate, that we should either declare war against Red China, or do that which would amount to open warfare against her . . . If they do not, their support of MacArthur is a mockery." Minnesota's brash Hubert Humphrey picked up the cue. "The Republican Party," he said, "has become the war party...
...auction rooms of Melbourne, Australia last week, wool prices tumbled from $566 a bale to $466, the sharpest break in history. Reason: U.S. buyers had pulled out of the market in an attempt to force prices down. They were taking their cue from U.S. consumers at home, who were also staging something like a buyers' strike. Department-store sales for the week ended March 31 slumped 14% below the corresponding week last year (two weeks before Easter). Business inventories in February piled up to a record $65 billion...
This was the cue the U.L.P.C. awaited. The next day it issued its long, wrathful statement. Labor's manifesto served notice on Wilson and Harry Truman: grant organized labor more power-or else...
...opening night, husky and handsome in a midnight-blue tuxedo, he first stepped briskly into the spotlight and bared his wisdom teeth. Then he skittered into a fast, tricky arrangement of China Boy, letting a small smile play on his face, as if to cue the audience to the right light spirit. In Bewitched, he swayed like a stalk of wheat, closing his eyes and opening his mouth to cue in deep ecstasy. From there he went to Duke Ellington's hot, blaring Caravan. Then he took off his tie, loosened his collar, and launched into a friendly little...