Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Caller. Sorrowfully, Alcorn got word to Adams, then off fishing in Canada, that he was wanted back in Washington. Adams knew that there was only one possible reason for his required return. He was back at his White House desk by 8 o'clock the following Monday...
...strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged altogether in a pan-Arab nation. Minority groups began to stage counterdemonstrations against the unionists in the midst of Aref's meetings. Word spread that Prime Minister Kassem favored "gradualism" in relations with the U.A.R...
...Sunday school, Gene Skerbeck has the last word: "It used to be that you could take a show into the back country and those people had never seen anything like it. But they've all seen it on TV now. The rubes and the suckers are playing golf now. Oh, I don't say there aren't some rubes left, but where they are I don't know. Sometimes I think the only real suckers left are in the business...
Absorbing the Cost. Coral executives actually heard Hula Hoop 24 hours before Roulette did, but they lost valuable time by assigning it at first to a new female vocal group. Then the word got around that Roulette was recording Hula with Songstress Georgia Gibbs, and Coral executives decided that "we would have to come up with a big name, too." Their choice: Songstress Teresa Brewer. In the mad scramble that followed, Georgia beat Teresa into the record shops by one day, was further aided by the fact that she was able to sing the song on The Ed Sullivan Show...
GIRL: "The telephone number for Harvard College has been changed, but before I tell you what it is, here is a word from my sponsor...