Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has punctuated his speeches and conversation since Inauguration Day, President Eisenhower last week was discomforted by further complications. Striding into his 103rd press conference, the President surveyed his audience through eyes moist and red-rimmed from a stubborn head cold. Tamped into his left ear was a medicated wad of cotton. To newsmen about to ply him with such lackluster inquiries as whether he drinks the District of Columbia's fluoridated tap water (he does), Ike explained that his hearing temporarily was not good (Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder's diagnosis: an inflamed Eustachian tube). The President...
...appearance as a witness of Portland's craggy-faced James B. Elkins, 56, longtime big wheel of Oregon vice who had become "disenchanted" with the Teamsters after what was admittedly a falling-out among thugs. Once he had rid himself-at Chairman McClellan's request-of his wad of chewing gum, Witness Elkins sang loud and clear. As one who had served time for crimes ranging from assault with intent to kill to possession of narcotics, he easily qualified as an expert witness on Portland racketeering...
...Sullivan Jr. (following a long-discussed idea), the inflated sub-satellite is a balloon of Mylar plastic .0025 in. thick covered with an aluminum film .0006 in. thick. When released from the third-stage rocket, it will weigh 10½ oz. complete and look like a wad of aluminum foil. A small capsule of compressed dry nitrogen will expand the plastic to a sphere 20 in. in diameter, which will follow at first the same orbit as the hardshelled satellite. Gradually the two will separate. The sub-satellite will have more drag per unit of weight, and so will slow...
Died. Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 80, poker-faced onetime Kansas pharmacist who parlayed $5,000 in insurance money (awarded after he shot off a toe while rabbit-hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew...
According to the film, De Sylva, Brown and Henderson (Gordon MacRae, Ernest Borgnine and Dan Dailey) were Broadway characters as salty as the waiters in Lindy's, and for most of the distance they give the customer a pretty fair run for his money. MacRae lays his wad on fast women, Borgnine on slow horses, and Dailey gives his paycheck to the ever-loving wife. But they all get together to write pretty little ditties (Sonny Boy, Black Bottom, Button Up Your Overcoat, Birth of the Blues), and Sheree North is usually around to sing them. The show glides...