Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appetite for Acclaim. On May Day-an occasion notable this year throughout the world for its listlessness as well as its planned lack of proletarian provocation-Nasser became the first non-Communist head of state ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev...
Pimps, naturally, hate him. One tough character, who has since been murdered in an underworld row, threatened to kill him. Recalls Père Pigalle with a laugh: "His women disappeared. He got it into his head that it was I who was taking them away. Imagine it-with my...
Is there too much chrome? Or not enough? Are the fins too fabulous? Or just fishy? Everyone debates the case of the small car v. the big car, argues the merits of the U.S. car v. the invading import. There are gags for every occasion. At the sight of a...
Milestoned. In New Haven, Conn., John Murphy got a suspended sentence when he told a judge that the occasion marked the 500th time he had appeared in city court for drunkenness.
Class Day that year, one observer reported, "had all the pomp and pageantry, the charm and beauty, the youth and color that has marked the occasion down through the sweep of the years. For Harvard was about to part with an old friend. It appeared difficult for the gathering to...