Word: purveyors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser received a visitor who, by wide repute, was a purveyor of quaint and useless notions. His claim: he had solved the problem that for 7,000 years had resisted solution, the taming of the Nile. Nasser called in a trusted engineer, who said, "The man's crazy." "That may be," Egypt's new young boss replied, "but don't come back until you're sure." The crazy idea was to build a dam barely 300 feet high which would back up the Nile's waters for 400 miles...
...world of comic strips, Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher have at least one very real sentiment in common. They despise each other. On public platforms and to newspaper editors all over the U.S.. Fisher has long charged that Capp is a purveyor of pornography. To back up his charge, Fisher has carted about huge reproductions of Capp's cartoons with the supposed pornography marked. Bluff, rollicking Cartoonist Capp, who started out as Fisher's apprentice 22 years ago, also gets off some free-handed statements. In an Atlantic Monthly article...
...Howard's manager, feted at a city banquet last year as scion of gracious living and upright tradition, is today as purveyor of filth. This formerly honest family man is new a corrupter of youth, the incarnate devil who not only takes the hindmost, but swathes it in a G-string to waggle before adolescent eyes...
...Dartmouth's turn to parody the Crime, which the Hanover staff in 1951 had called "the newspaperman's newspaper and the best undergraduate paper in the country." Whether it deserves this appelation or not, it eighty years the CRIMSON has developed from a tiny literary sheet to a gigantic purveyor of news read by some 15,000 people daily. An on-going dynamism has characterized the first eighty years of Crime history, and there's little reason to suspect the trend will disappear.Yale alumnus, cartoonist Charles Osborne thinks the CRIMSON editorial writer likes to wallow in his own blood...
...quite the same old Vishinsky, the corrosive purveyor of wise saws and ancient instances- he was slower and less certain of himself, and his wit was chillier. But it was the same old Soviet line, with a few new twists to adjust to the passage of a year. For disarmament, Vishinsky wanted a world disarmament conference, to sit by next June; for Korea, he insisted on a truce at the 38th parallel and an evacuation of all foreign troops; for the benefit of Communism, he wanted the U.N. to condemn and outlaw the West's North Atlantic defense organization...