Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough on politicals, are lax with prostitutes: only 13,000 cardholders are on their books, but an estimated 100,000, many of them under 23, ply their trade freely. In many of the most elegant bars and cafés of Madrid, there are now so many women for hire that respectable caballeros no longer take their wives or fiancées to such places after 7 p.m. Spain has a frightening venereal-disease rate: some 200,000 cases annually in public dispensaries, an unknown number treated privately...
...Pearl clowns it up." His added ingredient is a shrewd combination of news and human interest. When Arthur Godfrey fired Baritone Julius La Rosa, Ed had the young singer on his show the same week ("There's nothing personal in it-if Arthur got fired, I'd hire him"). The human interest touches are usually emotional. Sullivan presented Helen Hayes shortly after the tragic polio death of her 19-year-old daughter, Mary MacArthur; Broadway Director Josh Logan (South Pacific), who had suffered a breakdown, spoke feelingly on Ed's show about the problems of mental health...
...subpoena envy," which may be defined as the state of mind of the Hollywood liberal who never got called before a committee investigating anything. Author Mailer seems to have a bad case of it. His account of the interrogation by a pair of foul-mouthed goons in the hire of the "Subversive Committee" is calculated to frighten little children. It is bad enough for Mailer to paw every bed on the coast without finding Senator McCarthy underneath...
...TIME'S STATEMENT IN ITS SEPT. 12 ISSUE THAT FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK'S HONG KONG BRANCH "STARTED TO HIRE NATIVE WORKERS WHENEVER POSSIBLE, BUT SLOWED DOWN WHEN IT FOUND THAT IT WAS LOSING ITS IDENTITY AS AN AMERICAN BANK SELLING AMERICAN...
LOUISIANA: Grade F. State schools will not be integrated this fall, or in the foreseeable future. New Orleans Catholic authorities will not integrate their parochial schools "this year." The Louisiana state legislature voted $100,000 to hire attorneys to contest integration lawsuits at every level...