Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, every time the Americans picked up a London paper they read about their well-stocked larder. Cracked Hogan, coldly: "Next time I guess we'll have to leave our clubs at home and just have a meat show." The little Texan, not recovered from his near-fatal auto accident, was playing no tournament golf, but he was still a bad man to cross. Good-neighborliness dwindled to zero last week when Hogan demanded a look at the British team's irons before the matches-and pointed out that some of them were illegally grooved. An all-night...
...while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise, she has developed a phenomenal memory for lyrics, spot commercials and program notes, because she is too nearsighted to read either sheet music or off-camera cards...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
Last week Editor Wang's staff pleaded guilty again in an editorial: Ta Rung Pao had been so dull that the "comparatively backward elements" whom the Communists are seeking to convert "do not like to read the paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had turned out to be untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...