Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Split Pot. In Detroit, a vice squad broke up a dice game, smashed dice table and chairs, carted the players off to jail, returned later to find that the released players had pieced table and chairs together and renewed the game.
Horning In. In Rome, N.Y., fined $5 for driving his cab on the sidewalk, Cabby Arthur M. Carr explained that he went to pick up a fare who was having trouble walking straight.
NO statement about India," Indira Gandhi, daughter of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once observed, "is wholly true." Last week, in his capacity as president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of India, TIME's New Delhi Bureau Chief Donald S. Connery sat with officials of the Indian...
As Corsica came up on the radar screen of the President's Boeing jet, some 5½ hours out of a refueling stop at Goose Bay, the President's pilot got a discouraging report. Not only was Rome getting the rain promised on his long-range forecast, but...
As the procession rolled up to the Quirinale Palace, where the President and his party were to stay, Italy's President Gronchi seemed acutely embarrassed about the rain-splashed welcome. "Ah, Mr. President," said Gronchi, with a sad-eyed shrug. Ike reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve...