Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace the floor with his hands in his pockets while he talked, the telephone company was selling a phone equipped with a special speaker. In Los Angeles a cab driver announced happily that, "Everybody's tipping big today, even women." The highways were lined with the most spectacular parade of new cars in history, from Ford Crestliners in magenta and ivory to Cadillac Eldorados in "goddess gold" and Wedgwood green...
Louis the film rascals outrate all three competing programs combined. In Detroit they have an ARE rating of 35.8 against the 2.2 of their closest rivals. In Cleveland they do better than Superman, and in Hollywood, on one occasion, not even a spectacular could come close to them...
Standing between the varsity and all these records is an Eli squad, which has been only slightly less spectacular than the home forces during the course of the season. Yale boasts an identical 8-0 League record and a 16 won, 8 loss overall record. Four of Yale's eight defeats came on a tough Southern tour, which included victories over strong Wake Forest, Notre Dame, and North Carolina teams...
...bread and machines alone. The Congolese, or those among them who have climbed fastest from darkness to light, are slowly starting to talk about such verboten things as self-rule and democracy. Their stirrings are not enough to disturb the massive calm of the Belgian administration, or impede the spectacular advance of the Congo economy, but they are perceptible. To some Belgians they are alarming. Says a top-ranking Congo official: "What would the Negroes do with votes? Votes mean Communism...
...tempted to fasten the "strategic information" label on material of any kind, no matter how innocuous. And certain members of the Administration have long shown a distressing tendency to seek political advantage through selective leaks to the press; the release of the Yalta documents was only the most spectacular example. Under the new view of public information, the sphere of such political intriguing would be greatly widened. If the Administration sincerely believes that present security procedures are dangerously inadequate, let it undertake a systematic and logical revision of the classification system. Its efforts so far have only raised the ugly...