Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that included lengthy quotations from George Washington, Karl Marx, Andrew Jackson and Molly Malone ("The Nevada air corps can lick any European nation"). While an early-finishing House sang Home on the Range, Wisconsin's freshman Democrat William Proxmire infuriated his Senate colleagues by plopping a 750-page report on his desk and earnestly threatening to filibuster, as Saturday midnight approached, against any thought of diverting Lake Michigan water to the Chicago sewer system...
...Neues Deutschland carried an article urging the faculty on to greater and greater efforts in behalf of the "socialist reform" of the university. Among the signatures at the bottom was that of the university's rector, 63-year-old Josef Hämel. But on the very same page the paper carried a news item of quite a different sort. Hämel, said the story in almost unbelieving tones, "misusing the confidence put in him by the government," had fled to join "the atomic-war strategists...
...second time I have found it necessary to tear a page out of TIME before taking it home. I wonder why any editor who is a human being could think of printing the "Victims of Baghdad" pictures...
Victory, But . . . Moving with the rubber-ball energy of a nimble fat man, Khrushchev mounted the red-draped platform opposite the power station. "Dear Comrades!" he cried, and launched into the usual speech of glowing praise. For writing "a glorious new page," the workers were decorated collectively, then and there, with the Order of Lenin. Reminding them that their handiwork was "the largest hydropower station in the world," Khrushchev boasted that "the Americans took over 20 years to build their largest hydropower station, Grand Coulee,"* while "our Soviet workers" needed only seven years for Kuibyshev. "That, comrades, is an outstanding...
Unwilling to wait, Academy President Charles Wheeler hastily inserted a "personal" in the famed front-page classified advertising section of the London Times