Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whaler Arctic Skipper put out from the weathered jetty at Dildo and chuffed at a steady six knots down Trinity Bay. Deck hands were just finishing their breakfast of fried eggs, sausage and coffee in the tiny galley when a lookout cried: "Pothead!"† Captain Iver Iversen rang the engine signal. As the Skipper picked up speed, the whales sounded. When they came up again, they were heading out to sea, and a deck hand fired a rifle shot to turn them. A red signal flag went up the mast as the whales changed course. Out from the shore came...
...Cutoff Point. The telephone rang. Chairman Cartwright answered. It was a customer making an inquiry. The board chairman was just framing an answer when the switchboard operator cut him off the line. Cartwright hung up and the telephone rang again. It was another customer. The switchboard operator's piping voice cut in to explain: "I can't get any answer from the sales department, Mr. Cartwright." Chairman Cartwright's overloaded temper burst forth to Managing Director Pethybridge, who started to agree: "Of course people must go out for cups of tea in the middle of the morning...
...Washington last week the curtain rang down on a Sunday Meet the Press television show featuring the Republican vice presidential nominee, California's Senator Richard Nixon. After the show, Columnist Peter Edson, an old Washington hand who writes a column for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, approached Nixon. There had been a story "kicking around" ever since the Chicago convention, said Edson, to the effect that Nixon was getting financial assistance from a special fund set up by a group of wealthy Californians. Well, Nixon replied, the truth wasn't quite that way, but Edson could...
...coincidence, the San Francisco Opera also rang up its season's curtain on Tosca last week. The singers were mostly from the Met, which does not open its own season until November. As Tosca, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten repeated her big hit of last year, and was, if anything, even better...
...citizens of Charlottesville, Va. were a bit disconcerted at first. It was hard to know what to say when a child rang the doorbell and asked: "Are you emb-b-b-barrassed when you t-t-talk t-t-to a stutterer?" But by last week, Charlottesville had grown used to the question. It was all part of a special treatment, prescribed by the nearby Woodrow Wilson Speech Camp at the University of Virginia...