Word: wadded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn, it got rained on as Chancellor Adenauer raised the West Germans' new flag of sovereignty for the first time. In Paris, where Dulles, Britain's Macmillan, France's Pinay and eleven other NATO foreign ministers received der Alte in their midst, I sat on a wad of gum. In Vienna, the suit got soaked again in the rain that fell while Molotov was signing the Austrian State Treaty. And here in Belgrade, it got covered with dust on the ride from the airport behind Tito and Khrushchev. Poor suit. It's a mess...
...Jazz Workshop Quintet, and Buell Neidlinger's Dixieland band. In addition, the Smoker will present the Wellesley Widows and several freshman acts, including the Doozipaars, Freshman Glee Club soloist Frederick Brozer, folk-singers William D. Chapple, Michael C. Kenin, and Richard H. Zaffron, and the mimics "Doc and Wad...
...home on Miami Beach's Biscayne Bay, Wolfson likes to pore over financial statements, find a company that is worth a lot more than the price of its stock. When he does, he goes after it. Montgomery Ward is just that kind of a company. It has a wad of $293 million in cash and Government securities, hoarded up for the depression that Avery is sure will come. This cash reserve is worth $45 a share, while net current assets are worth about $88 a share. The stock this year has sold as low as $56. Since it usually...
...Siege at Red River (Panoramic; 20th Century-Fox) is a solid wad of batting from Fox's production cushion. Last year, when the studio converted to CinemaScope, it shrewdly maintained a small-screen corporation to fall back on, just in case CinemaScope should prove to be a lumpy bed. It was headed by Leonard Goldstein (TIME. April 28. 1952), who made millions for Universal-International with low-budget pictures like Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis, the talking mule. Now that the wide-screen boom is, in fact, shaking down to competitive normalcy, Goldstein may be worth his weight...
...Lieut. Colonel Ujjal Singh and U.S. Marine Major Edward Mackel, Dickenson ostentatiously drew from his pocket two packs of cigarettes-Lucky Strikes and a Chinese brand. He offered a Lucky to Colonel Singh and, when the Indian declined, with conscious deliberation Dickenson crumpled the Chinese cigarettes into a small wad. He lit a Lucky, inhaled deeply, and said quietly: "It feels great to be in the hands of Americans again...