Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities. To assure professional polish, enterprising Lutherans hired an ad agency, some high-priced Hollywood scriptwriters and actors. As .its director it chose Dr. Gockel, who had given up his pastorate in Evansville, Ind. after suffering a psychosomatic paralysis of the vocal cords caused by a deepseated; fear that he was "not reaching his people...
...onto the front lawn and porch of a private home, screaming protests that the soldiers had no right to bother them there. The paratroopers came on, moved up the porch steps, began pushing people off. A Missouri Pacific switchman named C. E. Blake, for days one of the most vocal of the agitators around Central High ("I advocate violence"), grabbed for a rifle, pulled a paratrooper to the ground with him. Another trooper reversed his rifle, smashed its butt against Blake's head. Blake, blood streaming from a shallow scalp wound, scuttled away, shouting to newsmen and photographers...
...other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could...
Back home the misguided tour stirred up most editorialists and most vocal politicos. "They have played into the hands of the Kremlin propagandists," said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "They have fallen for a come-on gimmick," added Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield. "My remedy," Vermont's liberal Republican Senator George D. Aiken summed up, "would be a good spanking for every one of them...
...sperm whales-not when the whales are puffing and blowing on the surface, but while they are submerged. Schevill wants to pin down once and for all the ancient reports that big (up to 65 ft.) sperm whales "talk" to each other beneath the surface, although they have no vocal cords. Last week's issue of the British magazine Nature carries a report by Schevill and L. Valentine Worthington, an oceanographer on the Institution's Atlantis, that produces scientific evidence to support what oldtime whalers have been spouting for centuries: the sperm whale is a great talker...