Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded, klieg-lighted hearing room on Capitol Hill last week, George Marshall filled in the details of U.S. plans for the defense of Europe-and in so doing all but ended the Great Debate. He disclosed to Congress and the world just how many U.S. troops would be committed to General Eisenhower's command...
...that was soon called the British Labor Party. At the next general elections the party boasted two Members of Parliament: Keir Hardie, a Scottish miner, and Richard Bell, a railwayman. Both would have looked out of place at the party's 49th annual conference in Margate last week. Klieg lights poured down on Prime Minister Attlee, six Cabinet Ministers and hundreds of well-dressed Labor Members of Parliament. Among them: seven noble Lords, including a film magnate, and a few millionaires. They crowded the American bar of Margate's Grand Hotel...
...Malicious & Irresponsible." Oscar Chapman, fighting-mad, rumbled into a klieg-lighted meeting of the Senate's Interior and Insular Affairs Committee two days later and confronted his accuser. "Senator Schoeppel's statement," said Chapman, ". . . can be dismissed as malicious and irresponsible . . . another instance of the use of the smear technique which has become the stock in trade of little men in high places." Its purpose, he declared, was a "last-ditch attempt to block statehood for Alaska" by suggesting that "my motives in advocating [it] are sinister and evil...
...nothing loftier than the fact that the bottom had dropped out of burlesque at the old Gayety, so the management went legit. For the New Gayety's opening with a touring company of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Susan Peters, honky-tonk Ninth Street bloomed with klieg lights and dinner-jacketed Congressmen and diplomats...
...think that this man had done some of his strongest and most persuasive talking before a series of hostile Congressional committees. He has obviously gotten some rest since his last trip to Cambridge (a flying graduation visit in June, when the Hickenlooper witch-hunt was keeping him under klieg lights and on the front pages); he seemed very much at ease and relaxed this time...