Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waldron Sr. was a small, grey, wiry man who kept his own counsel, spent most of his time at home hidden behind his newspaper. He was a rebel against steady work, a smalltime promoter of various large-sounding enterprises which never quite seemed to pan out. Father was a rebel in other respects. He disliked such contraptions as the automobile. He suspected such institutions as the telephone company; when he decided the company was cheating him on toll calls he had the telephone taken out, never would have it put back...
...first visit to the Pan American Union since becoming Secretary of State last January, Dean Acheson picked Pan American Day.* In the Council chamber of the white marble building the delegates to the Organization of American States awaited him. They hoped that he would use the occasion to spell out what President Truman's Point Four would mean in economic aid to their countries...
...Krokodiloes are far from content with "Sweet Adeline," however. In addition to chestnuts like "Johnny O'Conner," its 13 members sing modern arrangements from Tin Pan Alley, and if coaxed will even pull from the bag a garlicy Italian love song. The Kroks try to get away from run-of-the-mill college singing; their repertoire contains a wide variety of unusual numbers, each one specially arranged for the Krokodiloes with an eye to originality and entertainment...
Dormitories and clubs are joining this year in the project which includes food booths, fortune tellers procured by Bertram Hall, a ring toss sponsored by the Catholic Club, and a fishbowl-grab managed by Cabot Hall residents. The Pan American Club has the soft drink concession...
Your article states: "[Pan Am's] Lisbon base for a time was the only Allied radio outpost on the Continent." As a wartime "rockape" or inhabitant of Gibraltar at Britain's Cable and Wireless station, I would protest that neither the Germans nor the Italians at any period of the war ever prevented Gibraltar from exercising its usefulness as a radio outpost...