Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country. Britain's exhibit is solemn and stately. The main hall resembles Westiminister Abbey, the lights are subdued. There are no crowds and everyone files through in order. The guards at the door seem borrowed from the Buckingham Palace brigade, but they turn their heads and say a word of greeting to an occasional young girl. The hard-working Dutch were ambitious enough to build a model dike with artificial waves and a farm replete with cows, chickens, pigs, a farmer and his family...
Chief Justice Earl Warren read the 17-page opinion word for word in a quiet proceeding, while in Little Rock the lease plan blessed by Gov. Orval E. Faubus was being put into effect...
...Kremlin. Samples: "Lighters: not usually used . . . They use safety matches . . . They are very fond of potted palms." Director Delbert ("Marty") Mann put together a briefcase full of filing cards, constantly studied their cryptic information: "Stalin, 73, 5 ft. 4 in., weight 150-190. Doodles wolves, girls, castles and word Lenin...
...world's bridge players, and it has kept him there for years. Whether measured by master points awarded in tournaments (5,791), trophies (some 2,000), income (about $150,000 a year, more than any other five bridge experts combined), fame (he is a household word wherever bridge is played) or influence (his bidding system is used around the world), Bachelor Goren is the king of the bridge aces. "If I stopped playing today," he gloatingly says of his master-point total, "nobody could catch up with me for five years-at least...
Last week the professor demonstrated, in Southampton Water, his latest barge, which he calls a "Dracone," from a Greek word for serpent. It is 100 ft. long, 5 ft. in diameter, and made of 200 Ibs. of strong nylon fabric and about a ton of synthetic rubber. Partially filled to keep the skin relaxed, it carries 10,000 gallons of fluid and slips through the water like a boneless whale with a flattish top 18 in. above the surface...