Word: hitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missed Deadline. But there was a hitch. In a small office in the Palais des Nations, a mild little man reached for a telephone, and called Mendés. He announced himself: Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia. He was sorry, he said apologetically, but he had no intention whatever of signing the projected agreement...
...North Country clerk, Smith has been painting ever since he was a boy in primary school. After his two-year hitch of national service with the Royal Air Force signalmen, he moved to London to study on a government grant, later won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. During a jobless period in 1952 before he began to teach at the Bath Academy of Art, he held his first one-man show in London. His subject matter, working-class domesticity, was as commonplace as his own name. The critics noted it with mild approval...
...Legged Bowlers. Newsman Anderson, who was born in Pittsburgh, moved to Texas after a hitch in the Army in World War I and became sports editor of the Houston Press. It was not till early in World War II, when he saw a planeload of wounded soldiers from overseas arriving at a hospital, that he became interested in professional good works. Anderson was so shaken that he decided to help them regain their health through sports...
There could be one big hitch in the plans: New York City's five counties alone have 512 votes, mostly controlled by Tammany and Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. Like F.D.R. Jr., Wagner wants to follow a father's tracks-in his case, to the U.S. Senate. Wagner too may decide that the best route to Washington runs through Albany, as it did for Senator Herbert Lehman. Or he might be persuaded to run by those New York Democrats who feel that Junior is just plain poison. But, as of last week, the chances were that in November...
...maestro threw down his arms, withdrew pouting to the side of the podium. He frowned at the stubborn bulb, but still no light. Then he reached over with his baton and tapped the bulb. It lit. The baton slashed the air, and the recording went on without a hitch...