Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survives a deadweight glossary of Hollywood stars--including Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Edward O'Brien, Deborah Kerr, and Greer Garson, a number of them wasting their talent and experience on bit-parts and walk...
...Horsepower. In San Diego, Used Car Dealer O. B. Davey sold a "show horse'' to Stephaniek Friedman (14), had to give back $2,363 after she complained in court that the horse had a lame foot, a plastic...
...Djailolo Passage. At Amboina the Italian freighter Aquila was bombed and sunk, the Greek ship Armonia strafed, the Panamanian Flying Lark left with nine dead. On the open seas an Indonesian merchant ship, recently purchased from the Soviet Union, was riddled, and its Russian captain broadcast a frantic S O S to Djakarta, reporting five dead...
...supporters. Though the government reopened the lists, it closed the Ghana border, to stem the flow of pro-independence ideas from that newly independent state next door. Nevertheless, the nationalist fever mounted. "Ablodé! Ablodé! Ablodé!" (Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!) shouted nationalist speakers; the crowds roared back, "Wolo o wogebé o, milahoe!" (No matter what they...
...o'clock one afternoon last week, and the 14 members of the Selection Committee of Britain's Royal Academy were glumly having plum cake and tea to fortify themselves to go on judging the 9,944 entries for the yearly summer painting exhibition. By such reserved accolades as a grunt, a gently lifted hand and a muttered "Not too bad, what?" the committeemen had given a number of paintings the stature of D for doubtful, while marking the others X for rejected. Suddenly Academy President Charles Wheeler looked at a painting, put down his cup, summoned other committeemen...