Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates rose on cue, shouted, lifted their Dewey placards. The band struck up Anchors Aweigh. Milling in the timehonored, slow elephants' dance of a floor parade, the delegates whistled, whooped, marched. The demonstration lasted three minutes-and then the bands and the organ took over, and eked it out to another four. It was probably the shortest such demonstration in any U.S. convention's history...
...hall was really filled. Earlier, tickets had gone begging by the thousands. This time the chiselers were out in full force, crashing their way past the ushers, squatting in the press seats, the boxes, sneaking on to the floor. Blue haze reached up to the rafters. The band, the organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey man, Carl Craven, director...
Biased Words? These were extreme words, but there was enough truth in them to hurt. Quebec City's L'Action Catholique, the organ of powerful Cardinal J. M. Rodrigue Villeneuve, called Bouchard a "vile man" and a traitor to his people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister...
Freed from the Fascist muzzle, Rome's journalists went on a publishing spree. Among many new periodicals, dyed every shade of political opinion, appeared Voce d'Operaia (Workmen's Voice), self-styled organ of the "Catholic Communists...
...from Tripoli. Here, in a city which, except for some bombed buildings, looks untouched by war, he sat down on a restaurant balcony to a dinner of antipasto, spaghetti with meat sauce, steak and fruit tart. He washed it down with a bottle of sweet, heady wine while the organ-grinder played 0 Sole Mio on the sidewalk below...