Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enough Holler. To stave off courtroom boredom, newsmen covered each other. A columnist for the Cleveland Press, which is devoting at least two full pages a day to the trial, reported that Scripps-Howard Correspondent Andrew Tully, wheezing and coughing with a cold, made such a racket that Dr. Sam's brother, Stephen, turned to him in annoyance and said: "Drop dead." Replied Tully: "I can't. I've got to stay around for the hanging...
...Zealots fought the Hellenic aggression by trying to keep out all Hellenic ideas and insisting on old ways and values to the last. The Herodians were as firmly convinced that the only way to stave off the enemy was to borrow enough Hellenism to give the Jews a chance to hold their own. In the end, both methods proved equally futile...
...Egyptian doctor, gives as good as he got from Author Waltari. Jean Simmons, as his bright angel,' looks pretty carrying a jug on her head. As his dark angel, Bella Darvi manages, even while wearing green nail polish and a wig like a blue floor mop, to stave off the horselaughs-no mean accomplishment. Gene Tierney models some fetching Egyptian clothes, and Victor Mature's chief contribution to his role is the strength to carry 65 Ibs. of armor on his back...
Nonetheless, Smith managed to stave off a final vote. Then he made some anxious telephone calls to Dulles. The result: when the committee was called back into session, Dulles and Under Secretary Bedell Smith, although thoroughly busy with Geneva, were both present to tell why they objected to Knowland's amendment. The reason was simple: it would tie their hands too closely...
Last week the Senate: ¶After long consideration, amended the 1928 Standard Container Act by legalizing a smaller, round stave, ⅜-bu. basket for fruits and vegetables. Already legal are ⅜-bu. baskets made of splints, but, explained Florida's Spessard Holland, these are less satisfactory for tree-ripened fruit. ¶ Passed a $29 billion defense appropriation after voting down, 38 to 50, Massachusetts' John Kennedy's attempt to add $350 million to keep the Army at its present 19-division strength. Michigan's Homer Ferguson argued that the cost of continuing the two divisions...