Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's Union Square, barricaded by police, a crowd of 5,000 took its cue from prompters on a sound truck, wept through the time of electrocution, sang Go Down, Moses, abused President Eisenhower as "bloodthirsty," shouted a pledge to carry on the work of the Rosenbergs until "we have created a world of peace and beauty...
...girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand. The girls perspired, waved their arms, shouted, clenched their fists. One little girl about twelve hurled herself at a guard, and all order vanished. "You are murdering our country," cried another...
...four major networks, to TV screens across the nation. The glare of twelve big lights, ranging from 750-watt "spots" to 1,000-watt "broads," beat brightly down on President Eisenhower, sitting behind a small desk, with his face and bald head aglow with pancake makeup. His big "cue cards," which had been brought in only after news photographers had been shooed out of the room, were ready before him. On his right sat Attorney General Herbert Brownell, on his left, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby. All but Humphrey, who wore...
While waiting for his cue, Roland told me about his act. "I play the xylophone. When he finally stepped before the audience that's about all he did. Everyone else feels that Mr. Mistin, Jr. would make a fine side show feature, but John Ringling North thinks it's a great...
...that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry about for a few hours to see if there might be anything unacceptable in his background (they decided...