Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly gesture. Reporter Fortman sent the Baltimore Sun carbons of his series in advance, in case it wanted to print what its correspondent had been sending home. Seeing the first batch, the Sun let out a pained squawk that could be heard from Miami to Moscow. The paper not only felt entitled to its correspondent's full services but feared that its investment in setting up Moscow coverage would be jeopardized if the Russians got the notion that Norton was breaking censorship. The Herald had already run the first installment. But after the Sun called the Miami paper...
...clock every night in Paris, the trucks are jammed into every narrow street from the Opera to the Louvre. Horns squawk, cops shout, taxi drivers curse and take long detours, but nothing helps until 9 o'clock the next morning when the trucks roar away. The noisy, redolent center of this nightly hubbub, and its cause, is Les Halles Centrales, Paris' central food market...
Overanxious. Although one of the Met's most imposing casts surrounded Contralto Anderson, the performance was full of flaws. Tenor Richard Tucker growled out notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees...
...varsity squawk team easily best M.I.T., 8 to 1, yesterday on the Toch courts for their second straight intercollegiate victory. The Crimson will be bost and favored to best Wesleyan Saturday...
...Vishinsky was sailing for home May 5 on the Queen Elizabeth. Was it adieu or just au revoir? The New York Times frontpaged a report that he was ill, weary, tired of the U.S. and eager to retire. He is nearing 71. Vishinsky himself would not comment (except to squawk that the Times, which said he was 71, never got the facts right), but he is reportedly resentful that he was not invited to Geneva, which, more than the Berlin Conference, concerns subjects supposedly his specialty, such as Korea...