Word: quids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singers, conducted by David Randolph; Westminster Stereo). The serious collector of carols could scarcely do better than this album. The Randolph group sings with sensitivity and precision, and the selections are ones that the listener is not likely to stumble across in a month of Christmases: Patapan; Saint Staffan; Quid Petis, O Fili; Bring a Torch, Jeanette...
Most newsmen who knew them were willing to accept the statements of Bob Considine, Hal Boyle and Stan Delaplane that there had been no news-space quid pro quo with Hess. But by the very fact of becoming paid public personalities and hired performers, they had asked for embarrassment that could have been avoided had they stuck to their real jobs, at which all do exceedingly well...
...proposal requires a quid pro quo and leaves nothing to guesswork. If Moscow really wants to end the peril of fallout (the Moscow test series last October gave North America the heaviest dose of radioactive material ever), it has no excuse for further delay. Meanwhile, as soon as the President lifts the ban on underground and space testing, U.S. planners can get on with sorely needed nuclear development (clean bombs, anti-missile missiles, compact Army and Navy weapons and pure-science experiments) at a time when such strength can be the tranquilizer for Communist-inspired tensions in Germany, the Mideast...
...Quid Gloves. In London, Scotland Yard discreetly looked into the matter of a counterfeit ?1 note that turned up in the bar of the House of Commons...
...over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face, as Cary expressed it, "as blank as a sanitary brick." But she observes that Guinness is nothing but a "dirty old man," and besides he already owes her four quid nine...