Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local TV viewers were startled when McCarthy, in a strange reversal of tactics, appealed to the authority of Bender--"an individual who holds a position much higher than Mr. Cohn or Mr. Carr...
...were ashamed and embarrassed by the vituperations of Tom ("Shrinking Violet") Linder. We thought his kind died "four score and nine years ago." We of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, who have fought and worked beside many of Georgia's higher-class citizens-notably Negroes-are inclined to believe that Linder is the "immigrant of lower standards...
Judge Rumpff was shocked. "You have committed a brutal and merciless assault on a boy who was no more than a child," he said. The court sentenced both brothers to eight years in jail and ten strokes with a bamboo cane (not to be raised higher than the shoulder of the striker). And at that the courtroom buzzed, and white women sobbed. Explained a Boer farmer: "To see white men sent to prison and flogged like Kaffirs for killing a thieving Kaffir is the deepest humiliation...
Before he could play, he had the lights turned up so he could see the huge audience. "Isn't that great, George?" he bubbled to his brother. Then he began his musical efforts by raising his piano bench higher because "This is a pretty high-class number." Pretty high-class for Liberace were something called Cornish Rhapsody (originally a British film score), emasculated versions of popular Chopin pieces, and Debussy's Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes...
Last week the industrial blade was moving up. For the third consecutive month the National Association of Purchasing Agents said that a majority of its members had reported higher orders for May than for the previous month. In Washington the Federal Reserve Board noted that durable-goods inventories continued to drop, while output of autos and household durable goods was up moderately (although auto sales were not keeping up with production-see below...