Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotels, 225 white (for purity) Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys stood by to whisk Democrats in air-conditioned and cost-free comfort to the International Amphitheatre. At the convention hall itself, the party that has not infrequently blasted Big Business let out space for the "American Showcase" promotion display of big business. The 22 advertisers hoped their free-handout booths might be picked up by roving TV cameramen and flashed to 50 million viewers. Their tab ($10 a foot) was a far cry from the $14.2 million which five industrial giants are paying to the three major networks...
Besides Gulek's own display of personal courage, one sign that democracy is not yet dead in Turkey was the big black headlines in Istanbul's newspapers on Gulek's Black Sea trip. Despite the Menderes press-muzzling laws, the papers circumspectly managed to get the idea across...
...victory. To the Egyptians the hawk represented the sun god; to early Christians the goldfinch depicted the crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done around 1100 B.C. to the hopping-mad, moonstruck sea gulls and cranes of Northwest Moderns Mark Tobey and Morris Graves...
...action is not in the operating rooms. There is the bawdy annual Bal de I'Internat, where celebrating medical students display large areas of healthily unsterilized flesh. Nor is the bed reserved exclusively for the patients. On occasion, the doctor is discovered...
...celebrities appear and play charades with infantile vigor. NBC's This Is Show Business (Tues. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is a panel show that has stumbled back on the air. An entertainer appears, goes through his act, then raises a show-business question to enable the panel to display its wit or wisdom. One commentator has already suggested that the name of the show be changed to This Is Show Business...