Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husky women who then cornered Miss Baker and asked her the most pointed possible questions for ten minutes. I sketched them as they crouched around her (see cut), and later asked who they were. The two ladies on the end were from the Hearst Syndicate, and the Louella Parsons type in the middle was from the Boston Globe...
...their black-type indignation about the plight of Commander Parker, the British press was slow to recognize the gossip about the royal couple themselves, in which Mike was involved at about the third-paragraph level. Out of London one day clacked a dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Mayfair Set Correspondent Joan Graham, reporting that Britons were troubled by whispers "that the Duke of Edinburgh had more than a passing interest in an unnamed woman and was meeting her regularly in the apartment of the court photographer." By London's teatime the Sun's sensational story was splashed...
...complaint was heard as long as Dictator Manuel Odria was in power. After President Manuel Prado took office last July, navy officers and newsmen began some critical digging. They reported that before ordering the subs, Admiral Saldias had turned down a U.S. offer of two World War II-type heavy cruisers at a bargain $2,000,000 each, payable over 30 years...
...Anyone is free to "hitchhike" on an idea, i.e., pick it up and improve on it. The result is usually that anywhere from 60 to 150 rapid-fire ideas are suggested. The vast majority are usually as impractical as the suggestion by one woman that autos have locomotive-type cowcatchers to nudge pedestrians out of the way. But if later evaluation shows that half a dozen of the ideas are potential solutions to the problem, the brainstorm session is considered a howling success. Says Brainstormer Osborn: "People come to realize that they do have this thing called creative imagination...
...Mayor Edward J. Sullivan's manipulations with the Cambridge School Committee did not affect the city's educational system, they might be humorously reminiscent of the type of enlightened city government which used to rule around the turn of the century. It is somewhat entertaining to observe the machinations by which legal procedure can be circumvented or strategically misused in order to make desired appointments...