Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congress moved smoothly ahead on schedule. Delegates applauded on cue, unanimously approved one after another of the government's proposals (including the one to increase the population). Looking forward to unsettled times, the Bulgarian Union of Sports denounced tennis as a bourgeois pastime; henceforth, sportsmen will be instructed in "shooting competitions, handling and unmounting of different weapons, the use of ordinary and automatic rifles, pistols and machine guns...
...looked as if the only way to get to Suchow was on foot. The Communists had cut the railroad line; no civilian airlines were operating; automobile travel was out; the National Defense Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they could leave...
...crime to call a man a screwball. Cried the News: "Hereafter, if a rude neighbor or stranger gives you a dirty look, and declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
...little money to work with. On his last night in Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...
...relished it among themselves with a nod or smile. They came back at him with a verse if he asked for it. Singing "Old Smokey," he threw the words at them one line at a time, catching them again when his chord changed and gave the group their cue...