Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered the pavement with heaps of merchandise, and beat up policemen who tried to restrain them. Shouting "Cyprus is Turkish," rioters set fire to buildings and Greek Orthodox churches, while others seized a Cadillac belonging to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras (a gift from Cinemogul Spyros Skouras) and shoved it into the Golden Horn's muddy waters...
...Jack Wakefield, Helen Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...
...week. The satelites will probably weigh less than 100 lbs., but even if they weigh only 10 Ibs they will be trackable from the earth Any interested party can track them or pick up their radio signals. "The satellites will appear in their orbits," said Dr. Newell "as a gift package from the U.S. Department of Defense...
Concerning the Aug. 22 report that the President's 13-month-old gift-heifer, Irvington Roamiss Pear, "reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves, and gamboled into the pasture," we wonder if this is not a slight exaggeration. The three of us represent over 47 years of accumulated farming experience, but none of us ever witnessed such an event...
...Received an unexpected gift : a handsome color photograph of Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, his wife, two daughters, a son-in-law and a granddaughter, against a background of blooming nasturtiums (see NEWS IN PICTURES). White House Press Secretary James Hagerty thought that he had an explanation of Zhukov's gift. At the Geneva Conference, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev told President Eisenhower that Zhukov had passed up his younger daughter's wedding in Moscow in order to attend the conference and to see his old comrade-in-arms. The President promptly presented an autographed...