Word: streamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making a Profit. Physically, both papers resemble U.S. newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
...Clipper," coaxed Jessie while squeezing water from the streamer and getting her land legs...
...billboard in front of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is a picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to cover the Tchaikovsky International Competition for TIME, soon began to file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager...
...symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer proclaiming: "Welcome Princeton, Orange and Black Brothers...
...When the blow fell, the Post was ready with its biggest and blackest streamer. CONANT CONFIRMED BY VOTE OF ONLY 6 SENATORS, 4-2. "The behind the scenes maneuvering, with Senator Saltonstall making an obviously determined fight for immediate confirmation, was as slick as any veteran Capitol observers have witnessed for a long time. . . Saltonstall's face was flushed when he ended his appeal on behalf of Dr. Conant--and Harvard...