Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen in Patchogue. L.I.. and educated at Georgia's Oglethorpe University, he went to Cuba to help run his father's textile mills. He met Batista at the Oriental Park race track near Havana one afternoon in 1939, struck up a friendship by striking a match for the dictator's cigar. The two got to know each other better during fishing expeditions and at parties in a house they shared in a seacoast town 27 miles outside of Havana...
...Brussels World's Fair, small, smooth President Kliment E. Voroshilov reeled out a party line of chatter while moving in and out of pavilions. Coming model-boyishly away from a U.S.-style voting machine, he said, "I voted for peace." Remotely controlled mechanical hands that struck a match were "symbolic," for "one day an inventor might put together a machine aimed at destruction, and might be tempted to try it. This we should stop in time." In the Hungarian pavilion, a panorama of Budapest called up Voroshilov's warmest memories: "What a beautiful city, what a beautiful country...
...cement shell went up. The interior pieces were returned and artisans began a careful job of restoration. Damaged pieces were repaired, regilded where necessary, and, to match the old tints, rubbed by hand until the dull undercoating peeked artistically through. Then they were set into place again, using the 1830 numbers. Cost: more than...
Armstrong's toughest task will be to needle those states that have lagged behind building schedules (see map). Several states are bogged down because they cannot raise their own 10% contribution to match the Government's 90% outlay. Among the laggards: West Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho...
...Matchmaker (Don Hartman; Paramount) is Shirley Booth, and no one can match her when she is on the middle-aged make. Waving her umbrella like a fairy godmother with a poltergeistic wand, she stumbles, rumbles and cannily bumbles her way through the title role of Thornton Wilder's 1956 stage success in a manner that moviegoers with a taste for old-fashioned American farce will have no trouble savoring...