Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn, sent a farewell message over his jet's radio to Konrad Adenauer: DEAR FRIEND-I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW GRATEFUL I AM. An hour and a half later, he was at London Airport, shaking hands with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In an off-the-cuff arrival speech that brought murmurs of appreciation from the crowd, the President said: "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which I have learned so much to love...
Even with time payments, there seems little likelihood that many Russians will be able to get much on the cuff. The fact is that most luxury items are still in short supply. Last week a precedent-breaking deal to export Moskvich and Volga autos to West Germany fell through because Russia could not guarantee delivery of 2,500 cars. The severest trial for the Soviet worker who wants a camera or a motorcycle is not financing the inflated price, but waiting while his name slowly drifts to the head of a long waiting list...
...cuff address to a national conference on civil rights in Washington, the President said that to settle the civil rights problem, one must have "those feelings of compassion, consideration and justice that derive from our concepts of moral law. I say moral law rather than statutory law because I happen to be one of those people who has very little faith in the ability of statutory law to change the human heart, or to eliminate prejudice . . . The important thing is that we go ahead, that we make progress. This does not necessarily mean revolution. In my mind, it means evolution...
...Daily Telegraph, up to three full columns in the sobersided Times. Basking in the limelight, Liberace, who first came to court in an uncharacteristically quiet blue suit, changed to a costume featuring an exuberant bronze Shantung suit, gold-buckled crocodile shoes and piano-shaped diamond and onyx cuff links. These devices stole the show from Defendant Connor, grumpily denying he meant any serious harm: the columns were only "fair comment" on the "biggest sentimental vomit of all time," the fruity allusions just "part of the impression of confectionery which Mr. Liberace conveyed to me-oversweetened. overflavored, overluscious, and just sickening...
...obscure nightclubs to the $25,000-a-year post of administrative secretary of null a 13,000-member union made up of vaudevillians, circus performers and miscellaneous nightclub entertainers (ranging from Red Skelton at $40,000 per week to a chorus boy at $75). Sporting pearl tie pin, jeweled cuff links and charcoal-grey suit, Bright quickly earned a reporter's nickname, "Blackie." Against him stood Blondie herself-Actress Penny Singleton, fortyish, who was up for re-election as A.G.V.A. president. Said she, weepily: "I'm just a little 114-lb. girl going in there alone...