Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Party to victory in 1960-Ambassador Lodge, Governor Rockefeller, Secretary [of the Treasury] Bob Anderson and Secretary [of the Interior] Fred Sea-ton." "Can't you think of one other?" a reporter asked. Stassen glowered at him, said nothing. "What about Nixon?" asked another. Replied Harold deadpan: "I think that this election of 1958 speaks for itself in that regard. I will be doing what I can to keep the way open for these four men." Would he start up an organization? "That," said Stassen, "will unfold with time...
...form a club to "present the Socialist point of view, establish a forum to discuss, debate, and propagate these views, and to disseminate Socialist information." All the Republicans, of both the Young and Eisenhower denominations, sought to do was frustrate these aims through a tiresome, deadpan filibuster...
...West, and is not so accomplished a writer. Though he is strikingly inventive in short scenes, he seems unable to plot beyond a dozen pages. Like the old two-reelers, Flash and Filigree lacks weight and discipline, but it also has an unfailing sense of the ridiculous, heightened by deadpan delivery...
...Washington, i.e., Washington's press corps, when in the week of Sherman Adams' troubles, he offered a timely ad-lib reply to a question at a National Press Club luncheon about why bribetaking and influence peddling were so widespread back home (TIME, April 21). Said Carlos Garcia deadpan: "That [corruption] exists in the Philippines I shall not deny. I do not believe there is any head of government anywhere in the world-this country not excepted-who can stand before you and affirm truthfully that his country is immune to this social cancer...
...Pabst plant to watch Wisconsin's Governor Vernon Thomson bung the golden 100 millionth barrel of beer. "We had to delay production two months to make sure the golden barrel did not get away from us," cracked a Pabst man. At lunch the party blinked at the deadpan declaration of Pabst President Harris Perlstein: "This golden barrel is the golden symbol of peace we can all cherish -beer has always been the beverage of peace...