Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, Marosan, who more and more does the tough talking for the castrated Premier Janos Kadar, went to Budapest Polytechnic University, where a student demonstration set off last year's revolt. "You may swathe yourselves in millions of meters of our national colors; you may sing the national anthem from morning to night," but it will do no good, he said. His alert cops arrested 1,200 Hungarians in July, Marosan went on. At this point some students got up and left the hall. "Our ranks are becoming thinner, my young student friends," said Marosan. "It is just...
...Christ Church sermon and the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth, some 50 Methodist and Episcopal clergymen marched into the Old North Church to the chimed tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord cited the Little Rock crisis...
Story or not, thousands of people crowded the Malls of the Scandinavian countries where indoor facilities were too small for his concerts. "You just have to introduce your songs a little slower, and sing a little slower," he said and probably they don't understand a lot of the words. But still, thirty to forty thousand people every time...
Scheduled to sing with the San Francisco Opera Company in Lucia and Macbeth, with thousands of tickets sold weeks in advance, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Callas was reached in Milan, after days of trying via transatlantic telephone, announced on the eve of the opera season that she wanted to cut the number of performances, and postpone their dates. The temperamental diva was promptly fired...
...TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their...