Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impelled to Follow...
...writer further ventured that most of the girls present at the weekends did not really enjoy themselves in this "blast for blast's sake" atmosphere, where one felt impelled to follow the crowd...
Williams, who has no immediate plans to follow up this, his initial success as a runner, was originally reluctant even to enter the race. Upon finding his name on Coach Bill McCurdy's list of starters, he declared emphatically that "I've never run three miles before and I never will...
...interviewer, Murrow's reputation suffers from the insipid conversations he conducts on Person to Person (and even some of his See It Now interviews show a lack of the flexibility to follow up an opening instead of going on to a prearranged question). Person to Person (sponsors: American Oil Co. and Hamm Brewing Co. alternating with LIFE) makes its pitch mainly to viewers who want to rubberneck in celebrities' homes. It deliberately casts Murrow, sitting in a Manhattan studio, as a discreet electronic guest whose job is to make polite chitchat, not ask probing questions. Murrow...
...money-$100,000 a show (plus $75,000 for TV time). Though Sponsor Pan American World Airways picks up part of the tab, CBS loses money on the program. Murrow and Friendly may spend as much as a year preparing a single show, e.g., Automation, Weal or Woe?, or follow a breaking news story on two hours' notice and come back with the memorable Clinton...