Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long years, beginning with World War II and continuing through the Labor government austerity that followed the peace, British trade unions have generally cooperated with the government in an amazing display of well-bred wage restraint. But at long last, a new militancy is in the air, and a new spokesman-thrusting aside Britain's square-shoed union leadership-has pushed forward to defy the Tory government's anti-inflationary program and demand a bigger wage packet for Britain's workers. He is burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers...
...nation's press, the Confidential trial in Los Angeles last week opened the shutters for a display of undressed pictures and well-fleshed tales about the stars. Many of the stories that blew up newspaper headlines had run in the scandalmags long ago, but the trial also began to pry loose one story that has never been told: how the gutter press scrapes up the dirt. From courtroom testimony and questioning of smut-smugglers from Manhattan to Hollywood. TIME describes this week how the top scandalmag operates. For Confidential's own inside story, see PRESS, Putting the Papers...
First package in the load was cucumber-shaped Anthony Doria, who despite his vegetable-like appearance, sounded like the world's longest-playing record. For eleven hours, Doria, former international secretary-treasurer of the U.A.W.-A.F.L., virtually overwhelmed the committee and absorbed television viewers with a display of verbal sidestepping, sermonizing, non-sequiturs and assorted mishmash calculated to assure everybody that Racketeer Johnny Dio is just as honest and devoted to clean labor unionism as Anthony Doria himself ("If society had treated Johnny Dio right, he would have had the opportunity of becoming an outstanding leader in labor...
...race to build the world's smallest helicopter, the lead was claimed last week by Aeronautical Engineer Eugene Gluhareff, who put on display in Manhattan Beach, Calif, a jet-powered air jitney that straps on the back of the pilot like a parachute. Weight of the contraption: 68 lbs., and Gluhareff thinks he can eventually lower...
...Actium), where orators held forth, to one end of the Forum. He began the 110-yd.-long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating whole new Forums in one imperial gesture. Boasted Augustus, Caesar's grandnephew: "I found a Rome of brick and left it marble...