Word: teasers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declared that she would not be surprised if U.S.-Soviet diplomatic relations were "broken off at any time by either side." See It Now viewers will get a report this month on the Molotov meeting and can look forward to a fuller explanation of Reporter Smith's teaser about U.S.-Soviet relations...
...Chevrolet dealers. Outside the Chevrolet agencies, hundreds of machines spewed forth varicolored bubbles by day; by night huge spotlights swiveled their beams across the sky. Dealers hung up miles of flags, banners and placards, hired clowns and calliopes, rented dinner jackets for their salesmen, splashed teaser ads through the press.* They spent $3,500,000 on promotion, giving away 2,131,000 balloons, 1,016,920 bottles of Prince Matchabelli perfume, hundreds of thousands of pencils, yardsticks, potholders, key cases and beanies. With the help of all this razzle-dazzle, Chevrolet Division Manager Tom Keating expects 20 million people...
Most were sailing craft, but for Richard Hoyt, onetime board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, Nevins built the high-powered Teaser, which raced the crack 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York...
...enthusiast who has spent ten years poring over old ships' logs and seamen's journals, listening to the yarns still spun in old whaling towns, and chatting with whaling authorities. What he has tried for and achieved is not a history of whaling but a teaser that may send readers to other books on the subject, perhaps even to that greatly unread but incessantly discussed U.S. classic, Herman Melville's Moby Dick...
...males, meanwhile, have been going through their Saturday rites of the young bulls, as blithe as you please. It is an unavoidable fact, however, that for every teaser there's an ankle strap, a taped up knee or a shoulder brace. She may be guilty, but he is no one to talk...