Word: usher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was followed by Rhapsody in candlelight--"a little piece I wrote myself," and The Beer barrel Polka-"I used to play this in Milwaukee saloons." Softly tittering figures skittered up the aisles to snap a picture. One teen-ager ducked under an usher's arm and squirmed breathlessly to the edge of the stage." "I see you baby," Libby called...
...harassed, barely two thirds of the Deputies were present. All Europe waited on their decision, yet there was little to be felt or seen of the profound sense of history that had reigned at the London Conference and shone in its decisions. A bored-looking, frock-coated usher placed the inevitable glass of milk at Mendès' right hand, and in a flat, disappointed voice, the Premier began to speak. Mendès was off form. His theme was essentially negative. Bidding for the support of EDC champions, he argued that enough of EDC's supranationality...
Some nations, notably India, were clearly willing and anxious to get Red China into the U.N. Others, notably Great Britain, flirted with the hope that admission to the U.N. might somehow reform the Chinese Communists and usher in an era of "peaceful coexistence." Negotiating a defeat in Indo-China, France might be willing to let the Communists trade their way into the world organization. The U.S. harbors no such fears, hopes or illusions. In Washington last week, the key men in the U.S. Government were building a great wall to keep Red China from (as Warren Austin once...
Reds & Riches. Arévalo's role, as it turned out, was to usher into dictator-ridden Guatemala such innovations as free speech, a free press, political parties and trade unions-in effect, to consolidate the revolution. Fighting off 29 plots and counterrevolutions, suspending constitutional liberties 13 times, Arévalo barely managed to hang on through six years. He never had time or energy to do much about his pet political theory, "Spiritual Socialism," a kind of fuzzy, nonmaterialistic revision of Communism...
...operating economies, was $55 million last year. But Perlman is not worried about the passenger deficit. Says he: "The passenger business is like the show window at Saks Fifth Avenue. [By improving the service] you bring in people by the show window." Quiet, modest and diffident as a church usher, Perlman expects to have a free hand in running the Central. Says he firmly: "I would expect to follow the advice of the board in matters like refinancing...