Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made it seem, the Casbah in Algiers is a squalid slum overpopulated by 80,000 natives, where pimps and petty thieves dart about labyrinthian alleyways, secret passages and connecting rooftops. It is also a prime hideout for terrorists of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From its recesses they fan out to plant bombs, stab and shoot, wreaking vengeance on Frenchman and moderate Arab alike. So far this year their bombs have killed 47 civilians, wounded 263 others; as a result, anyone now entering a bus. store or cinema in Algiers is automatically searched for arms or bombs...
...clothes drenched by the downpour that turned Comiskey Park into a quagmire, his spirits doused by the dismal sight of his favorites limping through their second game in a row, Chicago White Sox Fan Joseph Gorman was moved to rowdy wrath. He leaned over the visitors' dugout, took careful aim and treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process...
...Arlene breakfasts with her ten-year-old son Peter in an eleven-room apartment that she decorated herself, is chauffeured to the studio in a hired limousine ("my only luxury") for 8 o'clock rehearsals. After her 10-10:30 show, she goes over her fan mail (about 5,000 letters a week), then plunges into the endless round of business luncheons, hairdressers, interviews, benefits, art showings, recording sessions and couturiers (she has 200-odd "changes" filling her five closets). Arlene makes trips to the bank in an armored car, but insists that she likes the work more than...
...third generation of Lutheran pastors in his family (his son is pastor of St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn), Dr. Fry, 56, is a Yankee fan, an ardent Democrat, and a purposeful pinochle player-he has frequently trounced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Regarded as one of the ablest administrators in Protestantism, buoyant Dr. Fry is usually somewhere else in the world than his Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia...
Flowing Pros. In Las Vegas, Nev., Baseball Fan James Argenbright was fined $2 after he laid on the abuse of Umpire (and Policeman) Bob Everett so heavily that Everett finally arrested him for disorderly conduct...