Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...energies on vengeance, government business got badly snarled. At the presidential palace, crowds of job-seekers and well-wishers milled about; their weapons had been methodically checked at the door with numbered metal tags. Devoid of political experience, President Manuel Urrutia, onetime judge, kept the Cabinet in all-night sessions, quibbling over petty details. "He might make a President in normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes, much of it in advance. One unexpected...
...thud of Batista's fall reverberated in far-off Paraguay. The official radio, broadcasting from the Interior Ministry, urged Strongman Alfredo Stroessner to proceed with "preventive executions to avoid a blood bath like Cuba's in Paraguay." One night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses...
Only then did the poet, Robert L. McCulloh, head of the university news bureau, speak up. There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...
...operetta's high points were provided by the choreography: a dream ballet in which a defeated schemer cavorts near one of the coveted apartments, a wild Lindy hop by two of the triumphant apartment hunters. Tame by Broadway standards, the dances proved to be crowd rousers on opening night. Otherwise, Composer Shostakovich's first excursion into musical comedy got only tepid applause. The Moscow cognoscenti diagnosed Cheryomushki as an unequal contest between composer and librettists, with Shostakovich's music clearly coming out the loser...
...Kozyrev tells how he trained a 50-in. telescope on the moon on the night of Nov. 2-3 and took spectrograms of the crater Alphonsus. While he was watching, he saw the small, central peak of the crater lose its sharpness and turn reddish. By the time he changed the plate to take the next spectrogram, the peak was white again but much brighter than usual. A third spectrogram showed the crater back to normal...