Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make It Prompt. Next day at noon, the Supreme Court chamber was again charged with suspense. The overhead clocks ticked off the minutes as spectators moved quietly to the handful of seats and a hundred more lined up outside. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers slipped in quietly. So did some wives and children of the Justices. Soon two page boys in knickers and high black socks mounted the bench, pushed the nine chairs back and forth to see if they rolled easily, made sure that each Justice was provided with his customary pencil, scissors and paper...
...that the officers "give us the vista gorda"-ihe blank, unseeing eye. Nor do the police play favorites. Three Dade County deputy sheriffs junket down to Batista's Cuba, come home bragging openly that "it didn't cost a cent; we got the red-carpet treatment." Marcos Pérez Jimenez, former dictator of Venezuela, gains the gratitude of Miami Beach policemen by hiring them at fat fees to spend off-duty hours watching his $315,000 home...
...customers have surprised most retailers," said Executive Vice President Peter J. Stelling of Atlanta's J. P. Allen & Co. Allen's August sales raced 15% ahead of last year, on top of the best July in its 50-year history. Across the U.S., many another retailer was also pleasantly surprised. Merchandise managers of Southern California's Broadway, Bullock's and J. W. Robinson department stores reported that August sales exceeded all their expectations. Said President Arthur L. Kramer Jr. of Dallas' A. Harris & Co.: "Our first fall fashions were snapped up so fast that...
...DeVere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, reaffirmed his department's standing policy that graduate students other than Harvard graduates, who have had two years of basic ROTC at a land-grant college may be eligible for the advanced course. This also applies to undergraduate transfer students, he said...
...Peculiarities of national speech make it nearly impossible for a Greek to pronounce a b, an Arab a p, a Russian an h, a Frenchman a th. In the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when Sicilians rebelled against their Angevin overlords, those suspected of being Frenchmen were forced, in an irresistible repeat of the Biblical shibboleth, to repeat the Italian phrase ceci e ciceri, and slaughtered when they could not manage the Italian ch sound...