Word: whir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion of a visit to the court of- the Hellenes, inspected Queen Frederika of Greece from stem to stern and raucously proclaimed her "the cutest little Queenie I ever saw." The Congressman and his antics came a few years too soon: today he could play his role before the whir, glare and flash of a dozen cameras. In the harlequinade tumble for television, radio and newspaper publicity, more and more Congressmen have begun to play to the microphone and the lens...
...ornate Treaty Room of the old State Department Building across the street from the White House for President Eisenhower's news conference, the glaring eyes of four movie and television cameras stared at the scene from a platform at the end of the room. The cameras began to whir before the President came in and remarked that "we are trying a new experiment," and they kept right on until U.P.'s Merriman Smith cried, "Thank you, Mr. President," and ended the conference. Three and a half hours later, after editing by presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, the film...
...Aires wisecrack. The answer: "Mercedes-Benz" -a humorous salute to the more than 13,000 German busses, trucks and cars that roll through the capital's streets. In Brazil, doctors rely on new German X-ray machines; in Haiti, Bavarian beer is the favorite; in Mexico, German generators whir in new power plants. These signs and portents measure a striking development: exports of goods from Germany to Latin America, at a dead halt only eight years ago, were 2½ times greater by dollar volume in 1954 than in any year during Germany's pre-World...
...that score, moviegoers of all sorts and ages have the right to an honest gripe: movies about India might do well to be more faithful to history. The truth about the British raj* might make hearts pound -and turnstiles whir-far faster than they do at the conventional buncombe under the banyans...
Life was good for Govind, the little Hindu tailor. His shop, "The Handsome Gent's Tailoring Mart," buzzed with the profitable whir of a double row of sewing machines. His workmen were fond of him. He had a lovely, loving wife, two healthy babies and a third on the way. Good Hindu that he was, he tried to be a good man, gave alms to fakirs and lepers, never ate meat, and hoped for his soul's betterment in a new reincarnation...