Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...people do you think we've got here?" "Wall, I don't rightly recollect ever seeing so many before, but it must be at least 50,000.") In the press bus during the motorcade's progress, Boston newsmen made guesses ranging from 100,000 to 200,000, but the final figure, arrived at by two police officials, was 250,000. "The important thing is that we all get the same number," one reporter said. "In the old days, everybody used to fight for news, but we've learned to work together...
...characters of Dickens, Milne and Grimm have been less familiar than a TV puppet named Howdy Doody. After giving more performances than any show in the history of network television, NBC's Howdy Doody last week left the air-going out with an hourlong, reminiscent spectacular. The final show (there will be filmed reruns) brought back such milestones in Howdy Doody's career as the 1948 election campaign, when "the President of the Kids" solidly campaigned on a platform that promised two Christmases and one school day a year, more pictures in history books, double sodas...
...carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted off to jail, forlorn Henry decides that the contemporary world is one where virtue and vice are "superseded by Good Public Relations and Bad." Even more catastrophic is his final moment of revelation: "We're all West Indians...
...began the final air attack. Hellcats and Avengers were able to make selective runs on the slowly moving, almost helpless ship." As Ensign Yoshida recalls, "Men were jumbled together in disorder on the deck. Admiral Ito struggled to his feet. His chief of staff then rose and saluted. A prolonged silence followed. Ito looked around, shook hands deliberately with his staff officers, and then went resolutely to his cabin. The deck was nearly vertical. Shells of the big guns skidded, crashing against the bulkhead and kindling the first of a series of explosions." At 1423 this queen of the battlewagons...
...away and long ago as Chickamauga and Antietam. It takes the death of the world's most powerful warship to bring out Samuel Eliot Morison's unrivaled gifts as a chronicler of the sea and thereby to sustain a grand narrative sweep through this 14th and final volume of his History of United States Naval Operations in World...