Word: trough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolled its portable television unit into Broadway's Alvin Theater, strung microphones along the footlight trough, and televised some carefully tidied-up scenes from Mister Roberts. It was the première of Lucky Strike's Tonight on Broadway (Tues. 7 p.m., CBS Television), the first of a series of televiews of Broadway hits. Like many a try out performance, the show needed tightening and pruning. It ran ten minutes overtime, poked around too long backstage. There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts...
Farmers who keep pigs must detect a familiar note in many of the objections to the food saving plan [TIME, Oct. 20]. Hogs always raise hell when you push them away from the trough...
...date as that of Kansas City, was not wholly different from it. When the Kuomintang announced this week its list for the Legislative Yuan, old-guard members who were not up for renomination let out a howl of protest. They had fed so long and faithfully at the public trough-and was this to be their reward...
Emma moved steadily westward, then veered northward off the Virgin Islands. Meteorologists figured that she would probably keep on going northward-as most Caribbean hurricanes have done before -through a low-pressure trough created by two high-pressure banks. But the "highs" converged so fast that the big 'cane's northward path was blocked. For six hours, she stood ominously still near the Bahamas. When she started to roll again, she headed westward, straight for Florida's southeast Gold Coast...
...printing text at the top of the page and vocabulary at the bottom, then cutting a quarter-inch trough in between, Burnshaw had created two books with one binding, in a "Dutch door" arrangement. The student can look up words in the free-swinging pages of the dictionary below without turning a page in the text above. Burnshaw thinks his invention ranks with "the tip on the shoelace...