Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This time the raiders had to scale a cliff before reaching the rail line, but they blew a stretch of track into a mess of twisted steel. Purpose of the two attacks was not only to slow down the enemy's southward flow of war supplies, but to remind him that the lull in the Korean fighting was not by any means a total ceasefire. It was one more oddity of an odd war that after weeks of palaver over where a truce line should be, so much of last week's fighting should take place far beyond...
However, the editors remind contributors. "The Bulletin will not set itself up as an omniscient agency to dictate--in abstract terms--the perfect solution of problems ... it will primarily be interested in fostering an exchange of practical, technical information on student problems...
...Some firm statements from Senators and [U.S.] publicists remind [the British] too much of the Irish landlord who wrote from London to his tenants in Connaught, 'If you think you can intimidate me by shooting my bailiff, you are much mistaken.' The English are sometimes afraid they have been tapped for bailiff...
Other oldtimers around town couldn't keep away. Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon ("What kind of a sophisticated place is this? I can't even send drinks to the bandstand") and even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...
Hollywood's happy change of spirits came at a happy time: Hollywood's 50th anniversary.* In an hour-long radio show this week the Council of Motion Picture Organizations kicked off its year-long publicity campaign to remind everybody. Beginning next week, COMPO will start pouring out $350,000 in a coast-to-coast advertising campaign. A week later, task forces of three to six Hollywood stars, directors and producers will take to the road, to spread the word in men's and women's clubs, churches and schools...