Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hagerty's announcement that President Eisenhower might possibly cancel longstanding plans to speak at a Republican congressional campaign fund-raising dinner in Chicago next week (the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration) started a storm of cries from the G.O.P. National Committee. The Chicago affair was a near sellout with Ike's name on the billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White House, Ike changed...
French aria and Negro spirituals-and more than fulfilled the sponsoring State Department's hopes that she would reap good will for the U.S. along with the applause. Last week Singer Anderson reached New Delhi and learned that she was already a sellout attraction. Music lovers had scrambled to snap up the 1,200 available tickets that filled New Delhi's biggest concert hall to capacity...
That night Kennedy arose before a sellout audience, boyishly tugged at his ear, tweaked his nose, ran a finger around the inside of his shirt collar, and announced bleakly: "I am particularly happy to be here tonight." The crowd sat silent, waiting. Kennedy continued: "It will be possible for us to disagree as Democrats within our party organization." The silence grew heavier. Kennedy plunged ahead, reading the text of Republican Verger's tricky challenge. Said he: "I accept the challenge. You who have been gracious enough to invite me hererealize that...
...time in the U.S. in more than a century when the American Opera Society opened its fifth season in Manhattan's Town Hall. During its brief lifetime, the company has proved that it can mount operatic oddities with unique skill and flair. Its entire season is already a sellout by subscription alone, and when hundreds of people were turned away for last week's performance, the company quickly scheduled another evening of Anna for next month at Carnegie Hall...
...Sunday News (40,000). Neanderthal Republican Loeb (TIME, May 20), who frequently vents his spleen in terrible-tempered Page One editorials, e.g., an attack on President Eisenhower headed "Dopey Dwight," happily stepped up his press runs to 90,000 daily and 100,000 on Sunday and reported a sellout. The Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have...