Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's news conference room the next morning were sure that he would make an announcement and that it would be yes. No other answer seemed possible. Nevertheless, tension crackled in the room. Reporters peering down from the balcony could see what was on the one sheet of personal "DDE" stationery the President dropped on the desk. Printed in large letters and underlined with black grease pencil were the words Red Cross, Italians, Farm Bill, Upper Colorado. The fifth subject, doubly underlined, was "Personal...
...Newcomer. At Gutman's signal the 19 singers performed one by one-a traditionally ample soprano, a baritone who is a sheet metal worker, a petite mezzo-soprano with long blonde hair, no fewer than six tenors (more tenors than Gutman had encountered in all his auditions in Seattle, Tulsa, the Twin Cities and Chicago put together). Almost every singer had got some of his or her basic experience singing in churches; some have sung with Denver's energetic young Greater Denver Opera Association. A few studied at Manhattan's Juilliard school...
...Runner Wes Santee. Fastest miler in U.S. history (4:00.5), Wes was out to make his way from his speed on the track-and he cared not who knew what he was doing. Rarely did his expense accounts contain the creative writing and fantastic arithmetic of the standard swindle sheet. When Wes bulldozed track meet promoters into paying him far more than amateur rules permit, he usually listed the extra payments openly in his accounting for the Amateur Athletic Union. Said he: "These expense rules are for Joe Blows. I'm no Joe Blow . . . I had no other work...
Just before they come to a focus, the rays enter a vacuum chamber through a sheet of salt (transparent to infrared) and form their image on the blackened surface of a thin sheet of plastic. The other side of the plastic is covered with a film of silicone...
...week's end the final word belonged to an advertiser in the trade sheet Variety. Giving a box number and appealing to "interested" sponsors, stations, advertising agencies or agents, he promised to show "complete plans and format" for a new, super-duper quiz program. Its title: The Million-Dollar Question...