Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, the news is not just what happened yesterday or today. It is the whole stream of events, which can be seen in their full dimension only by assessing the past, examining the present, following the course of trends and looking toward the future. Four facets of the news in this week's TIME especially illustrate this scope...
...during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
...would also be a threat to Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has 45 Vampires and the men to fly them. Castro has jailed so many Cuban air force pilots as "war criminals'' that he cannot get his present fighter force (two P-51s, twelve P-47s and 17 Sea Furies) off the ground. The accepted method of combatting the clandestine flights from Florida is to send out cops in squad cars to race along the highways to try to find the planes when they land...
Although many feel that the Band should march on, play the music for which it is so popular, then march off, the Band continues to present half-time shows, forming objects and words. The drillmaster is the man who must each week dream up formations to please the crowd. All presentations are approved by the athletic department in advance, but the Band always tries to include as much on the risque side as possible...
...fine old institution is "Schneider's Band," a motley crew that plays at various girls colleges or wherever a beer keg is found. There actually was a Professor Schneider at Harvard, Band members will tell you, and Johann Wolfgang Schneider's Silver Cornet Band was "perpetrated in 1807." The present band is the descendant of that group...