Word: ta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's Bundestag, and the two former Nazi Party cardholders in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Cabinet. Day after day East German newspapers headline: NAZI MURDERERS UNDER BONN'S PROTECTION, or NAZIS AS DEPUTIES. Last week Berlin's "Investigating Committee of Free Jurists," making no effort ta defend Bonn's tolerance of ex-Nazis, published a look-who's-talking report about Nazis in high places in East Germany, listing name, rank and party-card-number documentation. At least 28 of the 400 members of the East German lower house, the report showed, including Volkskammer...
...Emancipation Proclamation to schoolchildren in Bangkok, told schoolboys in Malaya: "I might bring to your attention that hate and fear are two things with which babies are not born." There were many, but not too many, songs-Schubert's Serenade in Manila, Mon Coeur S'ouvre a Ta Voix from Samson and Delilah in Bombay, Schubert's Ave Maria in many places-and some long, too long, interviews in between. She went to an old church in Viet Nam to sing Let My People Go, to a meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist...
...Steel Hour: Actor-Author Robert Emmett's You Can't Win lost its silly head completely but managed to keep its heart in the right place and a tickly hand on the viewer's funnybone. As he dum-tada-ta-ed the habanera from Carmen ("Greasy cup and dirty plate, I'll wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most...
...Transit Authority threatened the 6,000 strikers and sympathizers with dismissal if they did not return at once to work. Otherwise, all the TA was able to do was offer overtime pay and a 25 per cent bonus to non-striking underground employees...
...times. But it becomes merely amusing when he borrows from advertisements (A piece of apple pie is "nutritious, and ... delicious"), and elsewhere downright sickeningly romantic. ("Holy flowers floating in the dawn of Jazz America.") And when he tries to describe jazz, he reaches the heights of the ridiculous. ("ta-tup-EE-da-de-deraRup ...") It's difficult to see why, in the day of LP's, he thinks it necessary to compete with Charlie Parker on paper...