Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta, does even an "ook" give out with a wolf whistle, but? No. When girls pass by, more likely the air is rent with cries of "Woowoo, choo-choo," or even a snatch of verse: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, come on, baby, you must, you must...
Until somebody stopped Wilkinson & Co. (and the University of Texas seemed the only opponent in sight strong enough to give them an argument), Oklahoma belonged in the running for the national championship...
Carvings & Black Cloaks. This summer, as the Holy Year 1950 approached, the Romans once again began sharpening their wits to give money-laden visitors a big welcome. One private enterpriser set up a stall at the foot of St. Peter's steps to peddle rosaries, postcards, photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third...
...shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
Actually, said the booklet, the average Southern editor is not as anti-Negro as he sometimes sounds; he is just trying to give readers "what he thinks they want." The council's counsel : give them what the editor thinks they ought to have. "The responsible editor . . . need not indulge in special pleading for the Negro. He need merely apply the same news values . . . the same respect for accuracy, the same sense of fair play and good taste...