Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next morning he hastily called a press conference to deny that he had any intention of resigning. But that afternoon he got a shock. Georgia's mild-mannered Senator Walter F. George, one of the committee's most influential Democrats, delivered...
Gospodin Wallace. In schoolrooms, happy moppets chalked up such spontaneous slogans as: "Let's Be Shock Brigadiers in Education and in Work." "Now there is no more persecution, or hatred, or exploitation," said a "typical" Serb; "[but] why is it that your country and mine can't get along?" "What we cannot understand," said another, "is why your Gospodin Wallace . . . does not have the big majority of the American public with...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
Said a Wall Streeter: "Investors have had a bad psychological shock." The shock was a sudden drop in the price of long-term Government bonds. Last week's drop, over two points in some issues, was the biggest in more than a decade, and it touched off a wave of selling which quickly spread to corporate and municipal bonds. The New York stockmarket, which had been showing signs of a year-end rally, was stopped in its tracks. Cause of all this: a surprise move by the Federal Reserve System which curbed credit...
...busiest musician in Manhattan this week will undoubtedly be a shock-haired young man named Robert Shaw. When the last round tones of his RCA Victor Chorale conclude NBC's RCA Victor show, Shaw will just about have time to gobble his dinner, struggle into his heavy blue overcoat and dash four blocks to CBS's studios to lead the Columbia Chorale and Symphony in Beethoven's Mass in C. Two days-and eight hours of rehearsals-later, he will conduct his Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall in Bach's three-hour-long Christmas Oratorio; next...