Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspapers have thrown their pages wide open to the news, gossip and pictures of TV that flood in from wire services and network publicity mills. CBS alone churns out 100,000 stories a year for 1,200 publications, and the network even plants finished feature articles in dailies and some magazines. In addition to Sunday supplements-often modeled on TV Guide, the most successful magazine (circ. 5,315,659) started since the war-most newspapers each day feature syndicated TV critics and program previews, give free rein to scores of local' TV columnists. Though many newspapers balked for years...
...future of his legislative program, especially military and foreign-aid appropriations; and 2) the wrangle with U.S. allies over Harold Stassen's clumsy disarmament negotiations, which had provoked beyond ignoring the kind of family fight that Ike hates most. Ike's crowded schedule may have thrown him off his diet; the most popular theory, mentioned by John Foster Dulles, was that it was the blueberry pie he ate the night of his illness. And there was also the theory that the President, like many another man under pressure, had been made susceptible to stomach upset by a slight...
...speed, her exhausts pushing down neat twin yellow-white flames. Then, almost 8,000 ft. up, one flame trail lengthened, turned orange, mingled with ominous black smoke. The missile lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf only a few miles from its launching site...
Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...save money." Some old favorites will stay on, encouraged perhaps by the upswing in sales of portable TV models to vacationing patio and beach viewers. But mostly this summer's TV will be a rehash of the late season's mediocrity, with a few raw replacements thrown in. Network by network...