Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shared Joy. But the fighting did not immediately end. Clandestine radio calls testified to rebel resistance in isolated areas, both in Budapest and the provinces. And after first announcing that resistance was being crushed, Kadar took to the air to complain of continuing opposition "which might even get the upper hand." The weight and power of the Soviet assault indicated the seriousness with which the Kremlin now regarded the situation...
When it came to courses within their own areas, Classics students took 77 per cent, Upper-half English students 72, and Romance Languages...
...days later 71 marine wives and children set sail from Yokohama aboard another Navy transport. On the dock, a G.I. band played I Love You Truly and the Marine Corps Hymn. From the upper decks, the wives waved, blew kisses, wept. As the ship got ready to sail, the passengers suddenly unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey...
...Peak. Last week, like a stormy throwback to another century. Maria Callas swept into New York. She arrived, as is proper for prima donnas, in triumph. Raised in Manhattan's upper west side, Maria Callas had left it as a fat, unhappy child of 14. She returned svelte, successful, the wife of an Italian millionaire, a diva more widely hated by her colleagues and more wildly acclaimed by her public than any other living singer. She returned to open the season next week in Bellini's Norma at the Metropolitan-which only eleven years ago just could...
...child were Negroes. But except for the New York Daily News, no Manhattan daily so identified the missing baby. And most of the papers buried the kidnaper's race deep in their stories, while the New York Journal-American described the hunted woman closely from her missing upper teeth to her open-toed shoes, without anywhere mentioning the color of her skin...