Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a dog show opened in Chicago last March, the National Society for Medical Research-long a target for the Hearstpapers' antivivisectionist crusades-staged a counteroffensive. The society put on its own exhibit, where dog lovers could watch four dogs from the laboratories of Illinois universities. The doctors wanted to show that experiments had not made the dogs miserable...
...truculent, he became embroiled in endless quarrels with his fellow Frenchmen, finally retired to an isolated island of the Marquesa group. There he hoped "that the completely savage atmosphere and solitude will, before I die, inspire me with a new fire of enthusiasm which will renew my imagination and put the finishing touch to my talent...
Last week the Rev. Mr. Crookshank put the strength of that friendship to the test. In his parish magazine, in an article forthrightly entitled "Straight Ahead for the Bonfire," he blazed away at his little flock...
...first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help get it started in 1947. Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Gotten, as directors of the Playhouse, have also pitched...
Last week, while the talks about the plant were still going on, Ford and the Israelis signed their first big deal, a $4,000,000 contract for 1,800 U.S.-made trucks and buses, which Ford will start shipping this fall. The terms: Israel will put up 40%, or $1,600,000 in cash (from a $100 million credit already advanced by the Export-Import Bank), and Ford will give Israel a three-year credit for the 60% balance...