Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this pattern of living, charge and checking accounts have become the key means of watching income and outgo. Instead of counting the cash in the envelopes, families now leaf through their check stubs at the end of the month. Says one Seattle housewife: "Practically all our expenses-and those of everyone I know-are predetermined. We have certain payments we have to make-house, car, payments for food, clothes for ourselves and our three children. It doesn't take a slide-rule budget to make those payments. Our biggest concern is where our money goes, and the checkbook record...
...little or nothing about . . . how the dead live, or with what body they will hereafter come. These are matters belonging to the other side of death, and there is no more reason to suppose we can imagine them reliably than we have to suppose a caterpillar on a leaf can imagine what it is like...
Then, in 1948, Bandleader Art Mooney used a banjo in a recording of the 1927 hit, I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover ("that I overlooked before"), and the tune was picked up as Senator Robert A. Taft's presidential campaign song. In 1954 came the Ames Brothers' record of Man with the Banjo, followed by Hey, Mr. Banjo and Banjo's Back in Town...
Resistance. The Punjabi government warned: "Shout your slogans in meetings if you want, but not in processions with swords at every waist." Tara Singh defied the ban and was arrested. But taking a leaf out of Gandhi's book, he instructed his followers to remain "nonviolent" and "to offer no provocation." Since then, all over th,e Punjab,, bearded Sikhs have stood in front of policemen (the favorite place: before the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar), shouting their slogans and courting arrest. Already nearly 7,000 Sikhs have been jailed...
...formal Nov. 5 opening will present Beethoven's Fidelia, with tickets at a feudal 5,000-schilling ($192) top, to be followed by another Don Giovanni the night after that. Last week singers were rehearsing on the new stage, gilders were applying the last touches of gold leaf to the auditorium, and the occupying powers seemed to be doing their best to comply with Chancellor Julius Raab's special plea: please leave the country before opening night...