Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bright is frequently dull. Steinbeck might have done far better with a few people talking simple prose in a suburb, might have remembered that writers best achieve the universal through the particular. Blake, who gave him his title (Tyger, tyger, burning bright) could also have given him a good cue: To see the world in a grain of sand...
...well-briefed delegation of 300 Buenos Aires housewives. They had come to ask President Perón for "collective action and boycott" against the city's chiseling food merchants who had doubled their grocery bills in the past year. With a courteous bow, the President stepped forward on cue and launched another in the series of government campaigns against Argentina's five-year-old inflation...
...relying too heavily on ECA money. They cut some ECA subsidies; as a result, the Austrian government decided to raise food, coal and electricity prices by an average 30%. It also decided to raise wages, but only by 13%. The Reds saw this measure as a perfect cue to make trouble...
...Idle hands do the devil's work" is a tried and true saying that must have passed through that Eliot House man's mind. With a slow movement he put his cue on the table and cleared his throat...
...musical debut as the narrator in Prokofiev's symphonic fable, Peter and the Wolf. The First Lady emeritus, who had arrived to rehearse only that morning, read her score (solo passages underlined in black ink, lines with orchestral accompaniment in red) with a mellow distinctness, never missed a cue. The audience called her back for five rousing curtain calls. Said Conductor Serge Koussevitzky ecstatically: "Now the First Lady of the world is not only a grandmother to her own grandchildren, but, through her participation in Peter and the Wolf, a grandmother to the children of the world...