Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, carried by CBS and ABC, had a cast headed by singers Tony Martin, Marion Marlowe and Martha Wright, who set the mood of remembrance with snapshots of Mamie over the years. Their songs, her favorites, were Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Lovely Lake Geneva, The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, Down Among the Sheltering Palms (as a dance team dressed as Mamie and Ike, pre-World War 1, cut figures on the screen), Till We Meet Again, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Wunderbar...
From the Golden Pagoda, the tourists drove on to visit the cave where, according to a dream Premier U Nu had two years ago, Buddha once dwelt. No cave existed there, so U Nu ordered one made. "The roof leaks," commented Comrade Khrushchev. "You should visit our Moscow subway. You will find it dry because we built it properly...
...music followed the text with the eagerness of a revenue officer: now glorious in a joyous sunburst at the words "United States," now pinched at the mention of old age, now prattling giddily about estimated taxes and exemptions. A quintet reached heights of eloquence as it dwelt antiphonally on the words: "You can deduct your mother-in-law," only to be interrupted by the full chorus in a biting "But!", which led into more fine print, misterioso...
...whereabouts, Bruno Pontecorvo, 41, could at last publicly answer the youngster's query, "Yes"-with a vengeance. In a bristling letter to Pravda, Pontecorvo wrote that he had left England because of "the sugar-coated blackmail of the police," found asylum in the U.S.S.R., where his brain had dwelt on "atomic energy for peaceful aims." He also sprang a surprise: he had won a secretly awarded Stalin Prize last year. Later, Pontecorvo, proud occupant of a Moscow flat and a country villa, waved a Soviet passport before newsmen and cried: "I am a Soviet citizen...
Last week as the black-tied diners talked of politics in the President's gleaming white study, Manhattan Lawyer Tom Dewey seemed to be presenting arguments on both sides of the case. Dewey dwelt at length on reasons why the President should seek reelection. His arguments were easily boiled down: the party, the country and the world need Ike. But when he turned to his other favorite topic, Citizen Dewey could not refrain from describing the pleasures of a man who chooses not to run again. Since he stepped out of the governor's office in Albany...