Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying into London for a two-week concert tour, robust Singer Ella Fitzgerald ran afoul of tight-lipped British customs officials, who held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores...
...interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize. Jämsä promptly mounted the orchestra platform, beckoned for silence, then whipped out his falsies and waved them triumphantly in the air. The contest has not been held since...
What happened to autos, say the manufacturers, is essentially the same thing that happened to other consumer durable goods such as refrigerators, home freezers, TV sets, home washers and dryers. All were riding the boom-time surge in consumer credit as families tried to catch up on buying held back by World War II and Korea. This year the buyers finally caught up. Autos, along with other big-ticket items, were bound to slow down as debt-burdened consumers decided to hold off and pay their bills. After increasing 23% in 1955, installment credit increased only 10% in 1956, another...
Plasma from the Sun. The radiation belt, Van Allen conjectured, is probably a "plasma" made of disassociated hydrogen atoms (protons and electrons) that came originally from the sun and are held high above the earth by the earth's magnetic field. The belt may extend outward for two earth radii (8,000) miles before it disappears. Van Allen suspects that the supply of plasma fluctuates a good deal; the particles tend to leak down to the earth's atmosphere and are replenished from time to time by fresh particles shot into space by disturbances...
Dear Child. In Alexandria, Va., Lisa Norling, 2, playing with a telephone dial, accidentally made a connection, held an animated conversation with the man on the other end until her father took the phone, learned that his daughter had direct-dialed a number in Sacramento. Calif...