Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stimulating that Bridgeport, Conn, police last week banned teen-age rock-'n'-roll dance parties because the dancers "got out of hand." *Named, respectively, in honor of Cinemac tress Audrey Hepburn, af whose mere mention Saxophonist Desmond swoons, and Photogra pher Gjon Mili, who made a movie about the Brubeck Quartet. The title "Brubeck Time" commemorates TIME'S cove story...
...Hoosier would deny that shortly after Governor Craig "burst" into office, the air was hot and heavy with toll-road plans; and certainly no Hoosier could deny that, as a political tool for graft-minded politicians, the toll-road project is a tremendous achievement. What you didn't mention is that the remainder of our highways have acquired the not so complimentary name of "Craig's corduroy road system...
...East, Roosevelt had Stalin's 1943 promise, first given without any mention of a price, that Russia would go into the war against Japan soon after the conclusion of the German war. The question of a price to Russia entered the negotiations later, partly at Stalin's initiative, partly at Roosevelt's. At Yalta, there was no haggling about Stalin's price; he got all he asked, without argument. Roosevelt apparently welcomed the expansion of Russian power in the Western Pacific. Behind Churchill's back, Roosevelt offered Stalin participation in a Korean trusteeship from which...
Stevenson refused to mention specifically the names of the "certain politicians" to which he was referring because, he said, "I have not been following the committee hearings that carefully." But he did say: "I know Professor Galbraith and I wish I saw more...
...training for the race both have avoided the outbreak of chicken pox which has struck several members of the crew. They have received favorable mention in the British press. The London Times, in particular, singled out Monks in its dally reports on the Cambridge work-outs. Writes the paper's correspondent, "Monks is their king pin, and dominates the crew. To see him start a hard paddle is a Joy, for he can move a mountain of water...