Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment the crowd remained silent in confusion. Then a few quickwitted Christian Democrats began to cheer. They remembered a queer quirk in the Italian electoral law: in case of tie votes, the older man is chosen. And 52-year-old La Pira happens to be 18 months older than Socialist Ramat...
...copper and nitrate riches of the rainless northern deserts, thus completed the process of making their country so long (2,600 mi.) that if it were magically moved it could serve as a land bridge from Boston to Belfast. Chileans are 90% literate and obstinately democratic, but by a quirk they have elected as their President a man who was once their dictator: General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo...
...Columba and the River details how a quirk of hydrodynamics blows a sand hog unharmed from a collapsing tunnel to the surface of a river. With leaden humor, Dreiser jeers at the man's belief that the saints had preserved...
...never hesitated to put politics first and America last . . . Eisenhower, Bricker, Dulles, Nixon-the whole lot of them-were shameless demagogues in 1952. They exploited the hardships and the losses of the Korean War as President Truman's private 'police action,' undertaken, by some strange quirk of logic, because Secretary Acheson was 'soft' on Communism . . . Then, as we all know, the Eisenhower Administration proceeded to make a peace in Korea on terms for which a Republican Congress would have undertaken the impeachment of Harry Truman...
Since networks and stations had little detailed program information, TV Guide's Publisher James Quirk, veteran Philadelphia newsman and onetime press chief for General Matthew Ridgway in Korea and Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional...