Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toga). The Accardo soiree, an annual affair, had a different spirit this year. Where once his guests had slipped their black limousines into a hidden parking lot on the Accardo property, they now made an open show of their attendance, and the Big Boss's gardens rang with fresh and ominous...
Newsday decided to set a trap for the bounder. It ran another letter, signed by Staffer Gwen Risedorf, also protesting the shortage of jobs. .When the telephone rang last week in Mrs. Risedorf's home, the caller carried on a lewd conversation, made a date with Reporter Risedorf. When he showed up, the waiting cops pounced, arrested Donald J. Shannon, 33. He promptly pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. There was only one embarrassing note in Newsday's fine detective work. Shannon turned out to be a Newsday employee-a district circulation manager. He was promptly fired...
Cries of "guillotine" and "dictatorship" rang through the chamber as Howe made his closure notice. It meant that all speeches were cut to 20 minutes and that the entire debate on the bill's first reading would be ruthlessly shut off at 1 o'clock the following morning. With angry arguments over procedure, the opposition managed to prolong the debate until 4:42 a.m., but in the end the inevitable happened: the massive Liberal majority steamrollered the measure through...
...National Biscuit earned $4,678,974, up 17.3% above last year, and Sunshine Biscuits estimated a "quite substantial" gain in the year's first two months. Philip Morris estimated a 40% profit rise over 1955's first-quarter $1,849,992, and Kroger's cash registers rang up $3,908,872, for 41% more profit than last year. United Airlines revenues rose 11% over the $50,381,000 of a year ago, and President W. A. Patterson prophesied that revenues would rise 50% in the next five years. Chemicals reacted unevenly. While preliminary reports from Du Pont...
...clock's hands moved past 11 p.m., the election returns flowed steadily, and the telephone rang in a cramped Manchester, N.H. hotel suite. Democratic National Committeewoman Myrtle McIntyre answered the call, heard the droning drawl of her candidate in the Democratic half of New Hampshire's presidential primary, calling in from the Minnesota campaign hustings to find out how he was doing. Mrs. McIntyre assured the candidate that there was little doubt about his victory. "Really?" asked he. "Yes," said she. Exulted Candidate Estes Kefauver...