Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trio now has two briskly selling albums, plus as many nightclub engagements as it can handle (including a Las Vegas offer that may go to $3,000 a week). A columnist suffering from typewriter fatigue recently, tagged the trio the Gilbert & Sullivans of Jazz. A more apt title might be the James Joyces of Jive...
Appearing thin and weary, Dulles nonetheless waved off Ike's offer of a place on a sofa-"No, no, no"-and sat on a chair while the group posed for photographs under an Eisenhower oil portrait of Winston Churchill. The visit to Dulles, planned to last only 30 minutes, stretched on for nearly an hour as the leaders of the U.S. and Britain got down to the crisis of Berlin and West Germany. Indomitable John Foster Dulles drove home a vital point: let's talk about East-West negotiations but not deals-and any negotiations must...
...usually crawling with "pants rats," as he called his lice. He slept with whores and Indian squaws, because there weren't many other women around, and whenever he got the chance, he got bear-eatin' drunk, because the rest of the time life had little to offer him but salt pork and sundown. Somebody once counted 3,620 bullet holes in the ceiling of a bunkhouse -drilled there by cowhands who had nothing to do but shoot at flies...
...Government and Fine Arts Departments will offer a total of nine new middle group half-courses and graduate seminars next year, subject to Faculty approval, the two department chairmen confirmed yesterday...
...thirty dollars for his tests under the present program; a charge of a hundred would simply prevent many of them from taking any tests. Because the program is of immense benefit to the colleges, both by reducing pressure on introductory courses and by giving schools a real incentive to offer advanced courses, it seems reasonable that the colleges should pay at least part of the costs...