Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must a fan dancer don bra and panties in a newspaper advertisement even though she doffs them in her act? Should a newspaper refuse to accept ads for a controversial bestseller? Could Macy's guarantee to undersell Gimbels on Page 23, while Gimbels guaranteed to beat Macy's on Page 24? Should the new antihistamine drugs be allowed to advertise that they can "cure" colds...
...time I crawled out of the Paramount theater, I somehow wished that DeMille wasn't such a Bible fan after all. Spectacles and morals somehow don't mix; it's like holding a revival meeting in the Latin Quarter...
...Dutch were partially responsible for Westerling's raids. The Dutch stoutly denied the charges. Meanwhile, Turk Westerling blandly predicted that a new civil war was about to break out in West Java, from which he would emerge the winner. This was unlikely, but Westerling's bands could fan the dying embers of Indonesia-Dutch resentment and suspicion. First task of the U.S.I, army would be to finish off Turk Westerling...
...question appears in the current issue of the American Ecclesiastical Review, a learned monthly for the priesthood published by the Catholic University of America. The published reply, by the Rev. Francis J. Connell, top U.S. expert on the secular applications of canon law, might seem to many a fight fan like an ecclesiastical rabbit punch...
...Studebaker the equivalent of 150 miles on one gallon of ordinary high test gasoline. But he did it only after making exacting engine and body adjustments. Motor compression ratio was stepped up from 6.5:1 to 10:1, tires were inflated to 110 pounds per square inch, the fan belt was removed to save power, front-wheel bearings were lubricated with oil instead of grease to reduce friction...