Word: selections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course that Byrnes suggested would not have been possible in previous South Carolina presidential elections. Formerly, the voter had to select a Democratic or a Republican ballot, and not many South Carolina voters wanted to be seen taking the latter. In 1950, South Carolina became the last state to adopt the secret ballot with all candidates' names on one sheet.* With an eye to this change, Byrnes charted a course by which voters can stay Democrats and vote Republican...
...relax and "start putting words on paper. Start with the first word that pops into your mind relating to the product. This word will suggest another word. Simply jot them down as they come to you-and keep writing!" Lesson Seven ("Super-Speedway to Stardom") says: 'You must select the words that are to be spun into phrases and the phrases to be spun into entries. You must separate the gold from the copper coins." By Lesson Twelve, students are being coached in such dark mysteries as the use of the "Mystic Three." Says Shepherd: "Even Julius Caesar used...
...busy guest, President Vargas staged a handsome welcome. At one state dinner in the Foreign Ministry's old-world Itamarati Palace, 120 select guests promenaded past swans in a lagoon bordered by tall royal palms. In the tropical night the palace's yellow sandstone battlements looked like a set for Aïda; along them, 200 lance-bearing dragoons in plumed, gold helmets stood guard. Dinner was caviar, foie gras, pheasant and asparagus tips, followed by deep, flowery toasts in Pommery...
...brings a circular that reminds the writer: "Until you are a published author, you will never be regarded as an author." It points out, quite rightly, that ordinary publishers are looking only for sure things, that an unknown beginner has a slim chance. Besides, the vanity author joins the select list of great writers "who had enough faith in their own work to subsidize its publication," e.g., Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (The predominance of poets in the list of examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition's output last year...
Neutral Voice. Most announcers, even in such a major radio & TV center as Manhattan, earn less than $10,000 a year. But about a quarter of Manhattan's 400 announcers have annual incomes of from $10-$50,000. And a select few, including Stark and such topflight professionals as Ed Herlihy, Ben Grauer and Ralph Edwards, make more than $50,000 a year. Compared to TV actors, TV announcers are a moneyed aristocracy...