Word: hourlong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time such a thing has happened since Stalin dined with Churchill in wartime 1944. The cordial chitchat between the great men of both nations continued far into the night. "There were no sharp questions asked and no sharp remarks made," said one of the Britons after a five-hourlong heart-to-heart talk with the Russians. At one point in the evening, Attlee, Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky and Trade Minister Mikoyan explored the meaning of the word freedom. At last, through a bewildered interpreter, the three agreed that in the West it meant "freedom to choose"; in the Communist...
...Winchell never mentions in the attacks. Gray, who mixes only an infrequent record with his pretentious, long-winded, post-midnight "discussion program," broadcast by Manhattan's WMCA, committed an unpardonable sin last year. He turned his microphone over to New York Daily News Columnist Ed Sullivan for an hourlong, scathing attack on Winchell (TIME, Jan. 7). Those who knew Winchell waited to see how soon he would turn on upstart Disk Jockey Gray...
...walks out to introduce an act he looks as though someone had wound him up with a key-located somewhere under the coat hanger that seems to have been built into the broad shoulders of his double-breasted jacket. But televiewers apparently approve his wooden personality. Sullivan's hourlong, celebrity-studded variety show, Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS-TV), has been continuously on the air since 1948, has won more than 300 awards and citations, is rated a close runner-up to Milton Berle...