Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come out punching. Let the best man win." At that stockhofders started to punch, wanted to know why Loew's was not doing more in TV, why M-G-M had turned out so few moneymaking pictures recently. Charged an ex-Loew's accounting clerk, brandishing a sheaf of papers: in the last 18 months M-G-M had produced 52 pictures, but only three made money, "and I got all the records here." Snapped another: "These directors are big-salaried old windbags." As usual, Management Baiter Lewis Gilbert, owner of 20 shares (value: $447.50), had plenty...
...Word to the Audience. In London, Cambridge Archaeologist Dr. Glyn Daniel, 41, took his place as M.C. on a TV quiz show, studied the sheaf of poisoned arrows he was asking a panel of experts to identify, remarked moodily: "I should like to kill a few million people, and most of them would be viewers...
...became "The Response to Human Concerns." McCann checked his outline with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Economic Assistant Gabriel Hauge, and then set out, in a barren cubicle at the U.S. Air Force base in Denver, to write the first draft of the message. The result: a triple-spaced sheaf of typescript that ran to precisely 30 minutes' reading time...
...short, the farmer was more a political than economic problem. But in an election year no one expected the problem to become smaller or the expense of supporting crops any less. To trim the mounting surpluses, Secretary Benson was mulling over a sheaf of plans for more crop sales abroad, a soil conservation plan that would take land out of production. But a conservation plan would cost an estimated $500 million, and the U.S. already has $7.5 billion tied up in crops. Moreover, the new plans called for more and more restrictions on how farmers tilled their land. Thus...
...between President and press has created a "dangerous vacuum"-harmful to the President, the public and the functioning of the Government. Drummond suggested that Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams might hold weekly press conferences until Ike is ready, or that Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty could accept a weekly sheaf of written questions for the President to answer...