Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...President did say "always." But then, that was more than three years ago. For the past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
...another reason for it. One of the things Rudi Bing intended to tell the press this week was that Kirsten Flagstad would sing at the Met again next season. If Traubel, who has been singing the Wagnerian Ho-jo-to-hos in Flagstad's place for the past ten years, had guessed it, she might well have decided to "proceed with other plans...
Scoffing at Mason's figures, Purdy countercharged that Argosy, according to his own newsstand espionage report, had not even been making its circulation guarantee for the past year. Said Purdy: "Argosy's going to go down, because I'm going to push it down. I don't expect it to be around next year." As for True, Purdy said, it had just hit 1,500,000, and he was thinking of raising the guarantee...
This tendency toward "super-patriotism," Escoulin finds, has sometimes in the past prevented U.S. Roman Catholics from taking an independent line of conduct on the most serious problems of national life, such as racial and labor questions. But on Communism Escoulin finds U.S. Catholics sinning in the other direction. So passionately committed are they, he says, that they "absorb the most exaggerated and false propaganda" and are often prevented from "protesting against invalid methods of fighting Communism...
...started going by ... I kept telling myself to stick with them and they kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns and in the short straightaways, Yale's tall George Wade took the lead. John Twomey of the Illinois Athletic Club shouldered past him. With 2½ laps to go and Gehrmann apparently in trouble, Wilt swung ahead of the field...