Word: papers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsreel cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President...
...Year. Only on the subject of Red China's repeated issuance of maps showing large chunks of Indian territory as belonging to the Chinese state ("cartographic aggression," one paper called it) did Nehru show warmth. He complained that this Communist habit "has been a factor in creating continual irritation...
...corruption that the President himself signs all government vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15 years than in the entire 122 that went before. At one Monrovia polling place last week, an election official wore a red. white and blue paper eyeshade with the motto: "Don't gamble, play it safe, vote Tubman." The country's answer at week's end: more than 355,000 votes and a fourth term for Tubman, only 41 votes for his self-sacrificing opponent...
...boom The World of Paul Slickey, Pelham darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy...
...course, Natural Sciences 4, Nash assigned a term paper months before it was due, asking students to prepare a rough draft and consult him. "Out of about 10 students," he said, "only five ever showed up, and many probably didn't begin preparation until the day before...