Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairmen of both major national party committees, Republican Leonard Hall and Democrat Paul M. Butler, found themselves in a state of rare agreement. Butler told a special House committee studying lobbying and campaign activities that televiewers were bored sick by the torrent of campaign oratory that flooded their TV screens this year. Appearing before the same sitting solons two days later, Chairman Hall allowed: "You can saturate television with too much politics." Hall cited his proof-a welcome harbinger of less saturation in campaigns to come: political broadcasts win "very very low" audience ratings unless the speakers are candidates...
...then slipped back into Princeton ways, was a Woodrow Wilson fellow before receiving his Ph.D., and was immediately hired as a teacher in the Princeton Classics Department. As a teacher, his students found him intense and scintillating in his presentation of "meaty" material. His lectures, they said, were a torrent of vital information that left students with aching writing hands when they left the lecture room. "He's one of the ablest men in the whole damm profession," Whitney J. "Mike" Oates, chairman of the department said once of Goheen, who was his freshman advisor when the new president first...
Selling fine coffee to the world, Colombia takes in a golden torrent of foreign exchange-$300 million in the first eight months of this year. As a result, Colombia should be solvent, sound and stable. Instead, after two years of political mismanagement of its income, Colombia is setting off economic alarm bells both at home and abroad. It owes the tradesmen of the world around $345 million, and has become the No. 1 collection headache for U.S. exporters. The debt has sapped the nation's credit, its currency and its reserves. "The Colombian economy," said a U.S. Government official...
...festering misery and hatred of the Polish people for what they have suffered under Communism broke dramatically into the light of day last week. Twelve young men, brought to trial for their part in the revolt of factory workers at Poznan (TIME, July 9, et seq.)poured forth a torrent of testimony against the secret police and the Communist system. From court, and prosecution as well, came verification that some of the testimony-of police brutality, of enforced hunger, of officially induced lying-was indeed true. Paradoxically, the evidence was made possible by the Polish Communist Party itself. With...
...will loose a torrent of color spectaculars in hopes of tottering CBS's rating preeminence. Splashiest of all will probably be onetime Vaudeville Hoofer Walter Winchell as host of his own variety show early next month. Paul Douglas will join Mary Martin, biggest audience-puller on TV. in Born Yesterday on Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will also repro cruce Shaw's Man and Superman with