Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign progressed, Candidate Eisenhower depended more and more on the counsels of Manager Adams. Ike's trust was especially earned in the episode of Dick Nixon's expense account, when many of the Eisenhower staff members panicked and began screaming for Nixon's head. Adams' advice was simple: "Sit tight and wait." Then he helped set up Nixon's effective television speech...
...Dickens shows his psychiatric insight in many instances, but the story of Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities is remarkable, says Dr. Brain, "for the accuracy of his account of a case of multiple personality and loss of memory . . . and because it includes an anticipation of psychotherapy." As a prisoner in the Bastille during the French Revolution, Dr. Manette had been a shoemaker. After release he lost his memory, but regained it when he came to London. He continued to have memory lapses periodically, leaving his practice with each lapse to return to shoemaking. Finally, a friend helped...
...took the week's honors with a dependable Disneyland feature called Man and the Moon. The first half of the show was an amiable, animated account of mankind's relations with the moon from the dawn of history until today. The second part took a leap into the future with Guided-Missile Expert Wernher von Braun putting on a sample flight to the moon and back with the complement of spaceships and space gear that must have had Captain Video gnawing his oxygen tube with envy...
Lesson for Tomorrow. Meissner's story differs from Willoughby's official account in two important respects. The U.S. Army believes that Sorge was betrayed to Tokyo's secret police by a Japanese Communist. Meissner credits Sorge's downfall to the work of a certain Colonel Osaki of the Japanese secret police who, in the best tradition of melodrama, tripped Sorge over the pretty foot of a nightclub dancer...
...garment workers' building fund, the biggest single charity gift ever made by a labor union, will come both from the I.L.G.W.U.'s own bank account and from contributions by union members. Total cost of the 200-bed hospital will be approximately $1,500,000, and Dubinsky confidently hoped (out loud) that the 440,000 I.L.G.W.U. members will make up the $500,000 difference...