Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the tersest repartee since Calvin Coolidge's grunts were supposed to speak volumes, Earl Attlee, 73, Britain's former Laborite Prime Minister, met and bested circling Chicago newshawks. What are the touring earl's impressions of the U.S.? "Very large." Could Attlee expand on that comment a bit? "Very large and very wealthy." Attlee's views on the revolt-torn island of Cyprus: "Difficult problem." Will the U.S.'s new Middle East policy help to warm Anglo-American relations? "Can't tell...
...show was, strangely enough, Kovacs' first chance at high season to show his stuff and his pulling power on NBC at a prime time. Program Chief Tom McAvity called it Ernie's "audition," explained: "If his rating is good, we hope to sell him as TV's big new comedy talent next fall...
...stock opened at 5, off 37½ points from the previous close. In little over a month after his death, it was clear that Kreuger had been the world's greatest swindler, having "misappropriated" some $1,168,000,000 in nine years. In another month Sweden's Prime Minister had toppled, bank clerks were committing suicide, and King Gustaf's brother, a heavy Kreuger investor, had to move to humbler lodgings. In May, Pope Pius XI gave the Kreuger legend its epitaph by issuing an encyclical, Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by the Charity of Christ), the gist...
...rumor, of course, but we've heard that the University buys its meat out in Chicago some two hours (or less) before it is to be condemned. It is also said that the grade of meat purchased is "Utility," which under the Government's classification system ranks below Prime, Choice, and Commercial. Utility is considered better than Canners'-and-Cutters', which may or may not be reassuring...
...thing, the reader must know that the meats are graded according to popular consumption value (i.e. taste) and not according to nutrition. Commercial meat is actually more nutritious than prime or choice. So we mustn't be disturbed about not being good enough for Commercial; it's actually the best, that is, except for the taste...