Word: half-hour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entire clutch is laid. Grandmother kept fertile eggs gathered from the poultry yard in a cupboard until she had enough for a "setting," which may have required several days. Then a "broody" hen was allowed to "set" on the clutch. After 21 days, all the eggs hatched within a half-hour of each other. Clicks or no clicks, lots of chicks...
...long as five hours to do, but they made the magazine covers, earned Pablo special beauty awards and the run of Elizabeth Arden's Fifth Avenue salon. There a covey of beauties (Virna Lisi, Anne McDonnell Ford and Stephanie Javits) flock for his touch at $20 a half-hour session...
With a seemingly bottomless campaign treasury-estimated as high as $2,000,000-Shapp saturated the air waves with more than 7,000 radio spots, 34 half-hour TV shows in prime time, and so many TV shorts that aides lost count. Mailboxes were filled with provocative, well-prepared pamphlets setting out Shapp's views on expanding the state's economy and improving education: "I've been accused of buying the election," the candidate acknowledged at one point. "I'm not buying. I'm selling myself. It does cost money...
...rumors, exiles were brimming with an entirely new crop last week, hinting at possible coup attempts inside Haiti and new guerrilla invasions. To help pave the way, "The Voice of Haitian International Union," an exile group, buys time on a New York short-wave radio station to beam a half-hour news and conversation program into Haiti six days a week, poking fun at Duvalier. Castro is also taking to the air waves. "Duvalier has signed his own death warrant," Havana radio howls daily in Creole. "People of Haiti, rebel against the bloody gang in power...
...side against two of 'Arold's customary golfing partners, a pair of businessmen. That was a neat stroke, since Lee, in England on an eight-day visit, handles the clubs better than almost any Prime Minister in the world. But after a half-hour's play on the Ellesborough Golf Club course near Chequers, a cloudburst doused the winning P.M.s, and soon they gave up the game...