Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scratch for Pomp. Nehru and Vice President Radhakrishnan hope to hack away the middle-aged fat that, is debilitating the once lean and lithe party of Gandhi. Congress has grown complacent with victory, corrupt, nepotistic, aloof from the masses and rent with internal squabbles. Although Nehru bitterly condemns voting by caste, by linguistic factions or religious groups, many of his nominal followers openly espouse such causes in their campaigns...
...claim to be walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi drive big foreign cars, surround themselves with red-liveried lackeys, command private railroad cars, scratch like fishwives for the trappings of pomp and prestige. Nehru recently penned a sharp note to several state ministers warning them to get rid of their retainers and private railroad cars. "Even President Eisenhower," wrote the Pandit, "drives about the countryside without flags all over...
...mother to come down to the jail and sing hymns to the prisoners. At 18 he was a $10-a-week announcer on a local station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play...
...recently Picasso has thrown himself enthusiastically into makiag a full-length film, Le Mystere Picasso, a dazzling display of Picasso's technique, which had its U.S. premiere this month as part of the museum's Picasso exhibit. In it Picasso undertakes to paint a new canvas from scratch before the camera's eyes. Naked to the waist, white hair bristling on his chest, Picasso proclaims with calculated drama: "One must risk everything." Ad-libs Director Henri-Georges Clouzot solemnly: 'That's going to be dangerous." Says Picasso: "Out, that is what I seek." While...
...cooperation of cardinal and Communist that has steered Poland through six shaky months of peace. Tensest time of all was the election campaign, when it became clear that many voters, incensed at having few candidates but Communists to vote for, were planning to stay away from the polls or scratch out the Communist names. Either action would have gravely jeopardized Gomulka's position and brought the threat of Russian intervention. All across Poland parish priests told their flocks what would be required of them, and bishops ostentatiously dropped undeleted ballots into the boxes. Cardinal...