Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noise about Japanese landowners on Okinawa being dispossessed by U.S. forces. Under the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the U.S. got control of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands (Iwo Jima) for as long as it feels a military need to be there. As the election neared, the government tried to hop on the bandwagon by criticizing U.S. occupation policies too, but it was too late...
When their names appear on theater and dance-hall marquees announcing a stage show or "record hop," the stampede is on. The theater is jammed with adolescents from the 9 a.m. curtain to closing, and it rings and shrieks like the jungle-bird house at the zoo. If one of the current heroes is announced-groups such as Bill Haley and His Comets or The Platters, or a soloist such as Elvis Presley-the shrieks become deafening. The tumult completely drowns the sound of the spastically gyrating performers despite fully powered amplification. Only the obsessive beat pounds through, stimulating...
...gold is merely a picnic with the Wellesley Outing Club and a $140 Italian racing bike, but nonetheless, at least 37 hopefuls will hop into their saddles at varying intervals starting at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon for the annual 16-mile grind to Wellesley...
Never Again! The West's foreign ministers did not take all this sitting down. Instead, they did what foreign ministers now do when they get in a jam: hop a plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed...
India's bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru twirled by helicopter to Bombay on a sea hop from the British aircraft carrier Albion, maneuvering with Indian naval units. Before taking off from the Albion, Visitor Nehru looked a trifle apprehensive as a long-legged British admiral fussed with Nehru's "Mae West" lifejacket...