Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Put on the spot, forced to choose whether to give way or to break up the Alliance, the Chinese party called a hurried meeting of its general working committee. In a secret vote 89 delegates voted to continue in the Alliance, with 60 opposed. Hurrying to the Tengku with the news, Lim mopped his brow as the Prince, pressing his advantage, demanded that the Chinese party expel "irresponsible members responsible for the crisis." Then, as a small sop, he promised that the number of Chinese to be named on the coalition ticket would be raised from...
...Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro exploded in rage at the committee-"those political simpletons who seek to put a premium on treason"-and did not visibly cool off at President Eisenhower's statement that "the U.S. has made no such charges...
...Fort Worth to get away from it all, Louisiana's ailing Democratic Governor Earl K. Long, 63, obstinately ignored his grievous state of health (a continuing mental crackup, failing heart, aftereffects of a mild stroke), declared that he is as knowledgeable as all his doctors and psychiatrists put together, "dis-hired" the whole passel of them. In the Will Rogers suite of the Hotel Texas next day, in rumpled drawers and sports shirt, Long received Methodist Parson G. W. French Jr., president of the city's General Ministers Association. After Long had rambled on for an hour...
...party went on and on. Holdup men knocked over the front office from time to time (and once murdered a clerk), a waitress was arrested for peddling narcotics; the switchboard was taken over by a telephone operator who claimed to read character from voices, and who refused to put through calls from types he disliked. Still the guests came, and still they dropped into the pool. "I used to wait for them to come home and fall in," remembers Playwright Arthur Kober. "It was like waiting for a shoe to drop. I'd hear the splashes and then...
...faces were fading fast; the place was soon overrun by roaches and call girls. The last big spender was a happy drunk from Kansas City who made his fortune turning out horror pictures for the kiddies. For months last year, all drinks served in the Garden bar were put on his tab, and eventually he broke the record rung up by Benchley and his pals...