Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige has never been lower [July 16]." Had Mrs. Einhellig seen, as I did, the shock and apprehension that blanketed Copenhagen, Denmark when Mr. Eisenhower was stricken, she would have realized that true prestige, of a country or a man, is not created by a bellicose attitude or a palm full of silver...
...tribulations of a Brooklyn taxicab driver and his girl ("He's the sweetest fella a girl ever went to Florida without"), labors through improbable incidents and even less likely dialogue. The Charlie Farrell Show (Mon. 9 p.m., E.D.T.) takes place at the former screen star's plush Palm Springs Racquet Club; even in that glamorous setting it is corny and witless...
Suddenly Li Po slammed his tiny hand onto the table, and bowls and chopsticks jumped into the air. Proudly he exhibited a black blotch on his palm. "Ha," he cried, grinning for the first time, "I have exterminated another fly." Embarrassed, his mother mentioned the Reds' campaign to destroy the four pests. Li Po broke in: "I have already trapped and killed 20 rats and sparrows and exterminated 300 mosquitoes and flies." Hsiao Ming ordered her son to go off and wash his hands. Li Po had expected praise. Wounded, he replied, "Stop ordering me about like an American...
...taking no chances. The fly was reported first on April 14 by Orlo L. Prior of Miami, who found a maggoty grapefruit in his backyard. Not until April 22 was the discovery publicly announced, and by then the fly had made considerable progress. It has now moved northward into Palm Beach County, and has been reported from Alcoma, in the citrus belt...
Little Old Woman. Next afternoon the Armstrong crew held a "cultural exchange" on the Achimota college lawn with some 500 tribesmen, dancers and drummers. After a diplomatic round of palm wine and a furious round of tribal dances, the All-Stars took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary...