Word: event
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time we could make no greater mistake than to brush off this event as a scientific stunt of more significance to the man in the moon than to men on earth. We have had a grim and timely reminder of a truth we must never overlook−that the Soviet Union has developed a scientific and industrial capacity of great magnitude...
...Boston? Not much, if one is interested in good rodeo. In the East, rodeo becomes a spectacle, not a sport. In the West, where rodeo is close to its roots, rodeo for its own sake is highly respected. In many communities the rodeo is the big social and cultural event of the year. Everybody dons their Western apparel (in the bigger Western cities people are fined and jailed for not doing so) and goes to the rodeo. Being head of the citizen's rodeo committee is one of the most highly honored civic positions. Many Westerners have ranch backgrounds...
Well aware that their time has come, respectable union leaders such as A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany have drastically revised their matter-of-principle opposition to new labor laws, are willing to help legislative committees work up proposals that they think labor can live with. In any event, honest union leaders realize that the corrupt Dave Becks and Jimmy Hoffas, snorting their contempt of public opinion, have done more to hurt the workingman's cause than any outside antilabor crusade in history. With Congress on the move, they can only hope that the pendulum of public indignation will...
...celebrate the event, and to exploit its publicity potentialities, the management of Soho's Le Condor nightclub thought up a special kind of party. The management called it "The Confidential Ball-dressed for exposure," sent out invitations to some 300 of Tony's friends, most of whom accepted. They arrived dressed according to instructions-in pajamas, bathing suits or just their underwear. Among the guests: Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 25, the sister of Lord Londonderry, Sir Hugo Sebright, 26, Daphne Pattine, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk, one Count Gerhard von Goerl, and a sprinkling...
...material has its relatively weak moments, the performer his slightly too showy ones; but the good things blot them out. For Williams can make a small event of a mere phrase like "She held her head as though it might spill." He can make a larger one of Thomas' imagining how his old schoolmaster might remember...