Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second-Story Women. The grind began in Vienna in late 1956 when Austria beat Luxembourg 7-0. Almost every month, for the next year and a half, somewhere in the world national teams were playing for the privilege of going to Sweden. There were 53 entrants at the start of the competition and, in some sections, politics eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European...
...females with a nocturnal talent for window climbing. The Mexicans, too, were defeated. But they were not the only ones to reap extracurricular rewards. One luminous Swedish night an enterprising reporter camped outside the Northern Ireland team's hotel at 2 a.m., counted four window-climbing girls in half an hour...
...sold to any one candidate. WSM-TV ruled that the eight contestants for the Democratic nomination for Governor would be allocated a maximum of 45 minutes each between now and the primary on Aug. 7. Slightly more generous, WLAC-TV allowed them one hour of prime evening time, half an hour of nonpremium time. Candidates for the U.S. Senate and House will get the same allowance. Except for spot announcements, candidates for local and state legislative offices may buy no time at all. Nashville's third station, WSIX-TV, was turning down all candidates' bids for time until...
Globe's business is profitable; the firm sells some 100,000 copies a year, mostly to schools, of its 50-60 condensations. Globe, and half a dozen other firms that make such condensations, will go right on selling them, despite Classics-Crank Smith's outcry at the "preposterously arrogant assumption . . . that the adapter somehow knows how to write the book better than did the original author." And youngsters will go right on believing, quite erroneously, that they have read Two Years Before the Mast or A Tale of Two Cities or Moby Dick...
...Speakers. The piece, on which Composer Stockhausen spent a year and a half, utilized the sound of the human voice along with pure electronic sounds. Fragmented into vowels and consonants and later reassembled, the voice sounded "Praise the Lord" over weird sonorities. Later, a panel tackled the question on everybody's mind: Is this still music? Yes, said the panelists (including Stockhausen), despite letters from puzzled listeners asking whether their radios had been affected by "interplanetary static" or whether they had been listening to "part of the opera Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...