Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth of July garden party in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen led the Soviet Union's top topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets...
...Moore, 62, a Columbia professor, has been a notable exception. At least one of his previous operas, The Devil and Daniel Webster, achieved an easy lyrical style which has kept it alive in repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer...
...responses, "both replied 'Oui' firmly . . . Miss Kelly in husky, throaty sincerity," according to the Herald Trib. But in the Times, "each assented with a virtually inaudible 'Oui.' " In any case, the ceremony lasted just 20 minutes (Considine), 16 minutes (Kilgallen), 40 minutes (Post), 15 "emotion-laden" minutes (New York News...
Time and again, witnesses were allowed to contradict themselves and change their stories without reproof. Sample: Thief Willie Manoch testified that Jungschlaeger brought an arms-laden ship into Djambi in May. The defense replied that, due to low tides, the river port could not be entered in May. Said Manoch: "Oh yes, that's true. It was in October.'' Soothed the prosecutor: "One can make a mistake." Jungschlaeger himself pointed out that the Americans, Dutch and British were supposed to be involved in this "secret" operation. "And why then," he cried, "am I standing here alone, like...