Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...years ago, calmly lugged wet wash up from the basement while awaiting the doctor.) Friends know him as the sort of house guest who ends up painting the house before the weekend is over. When his telephone misbehaved, he spent days digging up the backyard to find a faulty line for the repair crew...
...three quarters the fans got instead a bruising and wondrously skillful defensive battle. Overshadowed all season long by the scoring feats of Quarterback Johnny Unitas, the Colts' defensive unit twice stopped drives inside the loyd. line, forced the Giants to settle for field goals. The game's big play came late in the third quarter, with the Giants ahead 9-7: on fourth down with 10 in. to go on the Baltimore 27, Giant Halfback Alex Webster was smeared for a loss...
...Preparatory School, began printing a Latin magazine for his class. This was about as far as Dr.Warsley's publishing ambition reached. But one day in 1931 Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas called Warsley and requested a Latin translation of "So long, until tomorrow"-the Thomas sign-off line. When Warsley obliged (Valete in Crastinum), Thomas not only used it, but plugged the magazine on his show...
...Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation of one of Elvis Presley's screaming hits, in which the key line, "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog," would come out "Tu nihil aliud nisi canis venaticus...
...Federal Trade Commission, too many U.S. businessmen fail to draw a line between legitimate puffing to make a sale and illegal lying about their product to deceive the customer. On the theory that informed and skeptical consumers are the first line of defense against the cheats, the commission last week held its first Washington Conference on Public Deception, attended by representatives of 47 civic, professional and business organizations. FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner said the commission would go all out to open its voluminous files on "trickery in the marketplace" to public view. "In the blunt language of the street...