Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sounding the Pitch. The Communist keynote - Down with Yankee Imperialism - had been anticipated long before Poet-Chairman Enrique González Martínez uttered the first word. It was sounded again & again as each delegation chairman got off a short, sharp speech...
...showed that the woman had probably had no more than about three months to live, prompting one official to state privately that her killing "was the humane thing to do." But the inquest also brought out evidence of a criminal offense, "aid . . . in commission of suicide." The government had long known about this Eskimo custom, but never before had it had enough evidence to prosecute...
...long ago as last fall, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey realized what he had in Newcombe. When the dollar-splurging Pittsburgh Pirates asked the Montrealer's price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...
...Authentic? They also brought back to class more news than was being printed in the daily papers. Before long, the six professionals were unashamedly cribbing from their classmates' homework. After six months, Editor Efron decided that her newshawks were ready to put out their own model newspaper. Printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies and distributed to government offices, labor unions, political parties and cafés, Vol. 1, No. 1 of Journal caused a national uproar...
...Wilson. Who are they? What do they want?" The speaker, a blimpish Hollywood Britisher in Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One, sucked petulantly on his whisky & soda and stared at his outdated copy of Horizon, Cyril Connolly's British monthly for intellectuals. If he had lived long enough to investigate the matter, he might have wondered how Scottie Wilson, a half-educated furniture dealer turned artist, had ever made his list of the big guns in the 20th Century highbrow arsenal in the first place...