Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airplane, faced microphones and told why he had come a day ahead of schedule to the scene of the Republican National Convention. "I suddenly discovered this was too interesting a place to stay away from," he said. "I just read the names of too many friends in the paper, and I wanted to see them...
...could ask for more [than $2.000] but I am asking for only what I need") was handwritten in green ink; there were peculiarities in the m's and r's. As one crew of agents set out to track down the supplier of the type of paper that the note was written on, scores of agents started to examine a vast variety of public records. First, they vainly sorted through 75,000 fingerprint cards of people in the area with police records. Then they branched out, pored over voting registrations, auto-license applications, court records. In six weeks...
Pieces of Paper. E.O.K.A.'s offer caught both friends and foes by surprise. In Athens the Greek government, long at loggerheads with Britain over Cyprus, promptly drew up a communiqué praising E.O.K.A.'s "noble decision," then in a rush of doubt held it up for 24 hours on the ground that the leaflets might not be authentic. The British government's first reaction was equally cautious. "You must remember," said a British spokesman, "that this is only one man's offer, and it came from pieces of paper scattered in the street...
...Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that resemble giant rubber bands being plucked, the click of a tack hammer, xylophones and harpsichords, and a sound like a Hawaiian guitar quivering on the breeze. To play these tricks, Pianists Ferrante and Teicher not only mute the strings with wads of paper, bits of wood and metal bars, but also pluck the strings while holding down keys for resonance, and even scratch the strings with their fingernails. For all their eccentric behavior. Teicher and Ferrante are master technicians and men of taste; the performances in Soundproof are honed and burnished to perfection...
...jammed zippers on men's trousers, the moral rights of physicians to evade traffic rules, the hazards of being attacked by family pets. One correspondent started an animated debate by advising his fellow practitioners to use a hypodermic syringe to deflate air bubbles when helping their wives to paper walls...