Word: howling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There seems to be very little talent among what 'Beat Generation' writers I have read. One likes to keep one's mind open to fresh talent, but these people think they are artists just by screaming. You can't really 'howl' unless you're a disciplined artist...
...Bing will do two hour-long shows a year for five years, also turn out ten filmed shows, for which he will act only as producer. Groans Bing: "I know I can't get by much longer singing." Many who heard him last week will howl in disagreement...
...April 30 he "verbally" fired Joan-not knowing that she had completed her 90-day probation period just the day before, and thus could not be given the air without formal charges. Joan's union (the Air Transport Division of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks) raised such a howl that Pan Am reinstated her. Last week Joan was back in the news as a pretty pawn in collective bargaining...
...Evening Standard column next day, Churchill burbled. "I was lucky enough to see the Prime Minister last night, and am happily in a position to tell the world that Britain will stand by the U.S. in the Far East." Instantly, there was a howl of outrage. Journalists complained that Churchill had violated the spirit of the hallowed rule that no British reporter may quote directly the informal statements of the Prime Minister on an important or delicate issue. Laborite politicians charged that Macmillan seemed to be committing Britain to fight for Quemoy, alongside...
Push-Pull Power. Even in such company, a 29-year-old pressman for the Los Angeles Times stood out from the start. Calm, calculating Marion ("Mickey") Thompson had put together an $8,000 streamliner that seemed to howl with speed just standing still. For push-pull power, Thompson remade two 1957 Chrysler engines and geared the first to the front wheels and the second to the back. To soup up the engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed...