Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudly that good Moslems groan and cover their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
BURLINGTON MILLS, which recently became the biggest U.S. textile maker by buying control of Goodall-Sanford for $7,600,000 (TIME, July 26), is turning back part of the company to the original owners. For an undisclosed sum, Burlington will sell Goodall's Palm Beach clothes subsidiary to a group headed by former Goodall President Elmer Ward...
Hollywood has contributed a touch of the ludicrous by putting Humphrey Bogart under a homburg and trying to palm him off as a scion of the rich. Bogart is an obvious ringer in the role; you can almost see him wince as he talks about cans of "tomahto" juice...
...Moulin, it was the Frenchman who would not accept. Only after Ben Amar dropped two out of six Neo-Destourians was his ten-man team approved. Every man on it is a moderate (what the French call "calm"). This week at a formal investiture, they kissed the right palm and left shoulder of the Bey of Tunis, received his "blessing of Allah...
...Smiling demurely, Geneviève got a happy, if oblique, bipartisan ovation. Two days later, standing between Ike and Mamie Eisenhower on the steps of the White House's rose garden, Heroine De Galard-Terraube received the U.S.'s Medal of Freedom with a bronze palm. Then she headed West for more acclaim...