Word: huff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles press conference by insisting on dividing it into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews noisily packed up and marched out in a mass huff, Rockefeller observed wryly: "A lesson in how to win friends and influence people...
Died. Donald Marr Nelson, 70, longtime (1912-42) Sears, Roebuck executive who was appointed (1942) by F.D.R. to be chairman of the War Production Board, captained the gigantic wartime industrial effort, went abroad to oversee production in England, China and Russia, resigned (1944) in a huff over what he felt was interference by the military, whom he later accused (Arsenal of Democracy) of trying to control the U.S. economy, became president (1945-47) of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles...
...Quincy even took the revolutionary step of establishing a high school for girls. Quincy's pride kept him from remaining in office longer than five years. In the election of 1828 he failed to obtain an absolute majority on either of the first two ballots, and withdrew in a huff from the race...
...Hundred Years of Brass Music (The Chamber Brass Players; Classic Editions, mono). Two trumpets, a trombone, a French horn and a tuba huff their way through the once enormously popular brass works of several composers, some famed, most of them forgotten-Tielman Susato, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antony Hoiborne, Johann Petzold, Henry Purcell. The burnished sound is properly refulgent, and the flowering, agile compositions themselves will come as a pleasant surprise to many a listener accustomed to the statelier, stuffier uses of modern brass...
...Fortnight ago, 32 employees of the talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...