Word: swank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome's swank Parioli district they gathered in a movie theater in response to a call from 39 Communist leaders, mostly onetime partisan fighters in World War II (including five expelled from the party by Togliatti and 14 with expulsions pending). These were the militants: they had read their Marx and Lenin; they believe in the inevitability of violence. They issued a manifesto accusing the party directorate of abandoning the Marxist-Leninist line, of giving up the fight against capitalism and of behaving not like revolutionaries, but like reformed Socialists who believe that Socialism may be attained by parliamentary...
...Israelis still cannot speak, read or write Hebrew, and it will be a long time before a lad from Morocco living in the arid emptiness of the rocky Hebron foothills wins the same opportunity as the boy from Rehavia, Jerusalem's swank suburb. Last week, calling again on the army to help deal with the social problems of consolidating the new state, Ben-Gurion urged that the conscription period be increased by one year to 3½, the last year to be spent establishing new agricultural settlements in the Negev...
After police found Ann Woodward, wearing a transparent blue negligee and a black brassiere and weeping hysterically beside the naked body of her husband, Dr. Prutting packed her off to Manhattan's swank Doctors Hospital...
...Ministry had ordered a Riviera hotel specially reopened for him. But after only one night, Ben Youssef abruptly announced that he was moving on to Paris (wailed the maitre d'hotel: "A 24-hour season! I have never seen anything like it!"). Hastily, the French government ordered the swank Hotel Pavilion Henri IV, twelve miles outside Paris, cleared of guests arid Ben Youssef moved in with his entourage...
...affirming the solidarity of the human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic joy was reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge off any social satire that remained in its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald...