Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjects as gardening and interior decorating, with a manufacturer's representative on hand to lecture. Owner McVicar has set up a free coffee dispenser so that customers can help themselves while making up their minds on what to buy. "The coffee stimulates their brains," says Mc Vicar. "There isn't any place to set a cup down, so they just go round and round, getting warmer and more receptive...
...After half an hour of back-and-forth before the committee, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright peered at "Beedle" Smith and asked: "Look here, General, speaking as an official of the Republican Administration, which do you prefer, the Richards amendment or this?" With soldierly precision Smith replied: "There just isn't any question about it. We prefer the Richards amendment...
...field Mays curbs his tongue and his curiosity. "When Willie wants to know something," says Guardian Forbes, with considered understatement, "he'll ask a simple question. All he wants is a simple answer. Then he don't see any reason for chewing it up any further. Willie isn't loquacious...
...cabin." Said Variety: "It was contended by some that public intelligence had outgrown some of the [Production Code] bans-but more important, that Hollywood, too, had outgrown its years of bad taste. Not so! ... On the basis of this type of film advertising copy, the Production Code not only isn't obsolete, but obviously isn't sufficiently policed...
This is the Air Force, isn't it? Then they say it is too high up. If you're training men who are going to be fighting at 80,000 ft., you might as well send them to school at 6,000 ft." The final obstacle-the lack of college girls-was brushed aside by a high Air Force officer with more realism than humility. "When we open," he said, "somebody will see the wisdom of starting a girls' college...