Word: pressingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country we have a special kind of head start, for we can usually depend on our American press-newspapers, radio, and magazines-to give us straight facts, to keep us fully informed, to help us understand. Now television, with programs like this one, can add a new dimension: true understanding of our own history and of our future...
Occasionally the police questioned Lucky. Said he: "If somebody slips on a banana peel, the cops call me in to find out if I'm selling bananas." Three months ago a police bigwig admitted that press charges against Luciano were "pure inventions." Lucky returned the compliment. "Italy has one of the best police forces in the world," said he, "and if they had anything on me, they'd arrest...
Past performance meant nothing. Mike Ferentz, the Long Beach (Calif.) bartender who won last year's championship, got knocked out in the first round. Reporters, who set up press headquarters in the ladies' locker room, were soon calling the tournament "anybody's open...
After 21,500 miles of flying, and four weeks of interviews, the 13 correspondents in the U.S. press party were too tired even to play poker. Homeward-bound on the KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) Constellation Franeker, they were in no mood for the kind of horseplay that had brightened an earlier leg of their Indonesian tour, when Nat Barrows of the Chicago Daily News whipped out some scissors and trimmed the luxuriant locks of the Houston Post's James Branyan, while two other newsmen held him down...
Salvage. In Oneida, Wis., John J. Everhard, whose wife had loaded her belongings into a wheelbarrow and left him for the eleventh time, asked the Press-Gazette to "put an item in the paper...