Word: sellout
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Many Zionists who heard him were near tears. Arab delegates smiled discreetly. The reaction abroad (see INTERNATIONAL) and elsewhere was more violent. U.S. Jewish leaders spoke angrily of a sellout. The New York Herald Tribune spoke for others: "There are few Americans who will be able to regard the action of their government without a sinking of the heart...
...addition to the Mozart opus, Walter Piston's Symphony No. 3, Prokofiefi's Seythian Suite, Ala and Lolli, and Maurice Ravel's impressionistic Daphnis et Chloe Suite will be delivered before what is expected to be a sellout audience...
...with the House Un-American Activities Committee, his fellow composers began to think more highly than ever of his music. To show their disdain for mixing politics with art, several of them got together to sponsor an all Eisler concert in Hollywood's Coronet Theater. It was a sellout at a $6 top-all 300 seats...
...issue: Bill 900-A, a measure to cancel the mandates (jobs) of all Communist legislators. For hours in the summer heat, shouts and insults were traded back & forth. Deputies screamed, leaped on the benches, fell back in steaming exhaustion as the galleries shrieked approval. A Communist cry of "sellout" brought the pistols of government deputies waving...
Socially, the concert was dazzling. The hall, for the first time this season, was a sellout. But Washington critics were tougher than any others have been with the President's daughter. "Most disappointing," said the Post. Said the Daily News: "Margaret's not equipped for serious concert work." Next day, interviewed on the radio by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's daughter, Drucie, Margaret Truman reported: "Poor Daddy was sitting there quite nervous." But after the first few numbers, she said, he calmed down and started beaming...