Word: stack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dresden last week a youthful hot combo was interrupted in mid-rehearsal and threatened with dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering...
...process consists of taking the card for the book desired and stamping it. It then does to the out desk to ascertain if the book is in the stacks. From here, a stack girl takes the card, goes and gets the book, and returns it to the circulation desk, where the card is stamped again...
...often slowed up," says Kipp, "because people who have stack passes are unfamiliar with the arrangement of the books, and misplace them...
Waterborne Poker. But as the week wore on and the good news from Korea flooded in, Harry Truman began acting more like his exuberant self. In a burst of speed which amazed his staff, he finished off, three days before the deadline, the tremendous stack of bills the vacation-bound 81st Congress had piled before him. It even looked as though he would be able to revive some reluctantly mothballed plans for windmilling personally into the 1950 congressional elections. His lieutenants, who had expected to find the President deskbound by Korean worries, worked up an itinerary of radio and television...
...just 20 days for Australia to borrow a cool $100 million.* The loan was formalized last week in Washington's whitestone World Bank building, when tall, lean World Bank President Eugene R. Black and short, stocky Australian Ambassador Norman J. O. Makin briskly signed their names to a stack of papers (30 signatures apiece...