Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri's rabble-rousing Dewey Short who created the biggest commotion. Republican Short, who as late as Nov. 25 had hailed the Truman foreign-aid program as "a glorious opportunity," suddenly reverted to his old America-Firstism. One day he rose up cherry-red with anger and cried: "There are times when one must be cruel to be kind. . . . The more you give people, the more they will curse you for not giving them more. Instead of bleeding ourselves white, we had better keep ourselves strong...
...they ready to go? Actually the question did not have to be asked, because Togliatti attacked it himself. He spoke with the disciplined fluency of a man long practised in saying no more and no less than the moment calls for: "We Communists haven't changed our program of reform since we left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating with the government, but by popular pressure. The news is false which the rightist press has been distributing about the date of a revolution." Choosing each word carefully, he concluded: "But one can never, generally...
...Edward Maybank, who cut an average of 25¾ tons a shift. The individual efforts of many another miner had swelled Britain's weekly coal production to 4,298,700 tons, the highest since August 1940. (Low point: 1,587,700 tons in August 1943). The mine modernization program was still too young to show big results, but it promised even higher production figures for the future. In Lancashire, miners chalked the promise on a coal tub: "If we'd better drillers and better cable, we'd have better figures than Betty Grable...
...Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...
...stage was a program fit for a king: Destinn singing arias from Aïda, and Melba arias from Romeo and Juliet; Tetrazzini and John McCormack in a duet from The Barber of Seville. Then came the evening's climax: the much-bruited new Russian ballet, whose 21-year-old star, Vaslav Nijinsky, had all Europe abuzz with the grace of his dancing and the power of his leaps. That night, London's applause was added to the Continent...