Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa), but the memory of the occasion stuck. Years later, after a World War I hitch in Europe with the Red Cross, Henderson decided to try a diplomatic career himself. Last week, in a ceremony in Washington's Constitution Hall, President Eisenhower gave Diplomat Henderson...
...most acrid debate of the campaign centers on the unemployment problem. Murphy claims that Herter has slighted the issue, despite the Governor's founding of the State Commerce Department. This agency has brought over 200 new industries into the state and helped account for one of Massachusetts' most prosperous years. The revealing part of Murphy's attack is his inability to offer an effective alternative. He has hazy ideas of improving Herter's Commerce Department and advocates unpracticable suggestions such as immediate revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a 50-cent increase in the wage minimum...
...director for Arcadia is Lyon Phelps, and if the meshing of the three main performances was his idea, he did an excellent job. Otherwise, pacing and blocking pretty well account for themselves, although neither is particularly fascinating...
...historical method of studying religion," according to Keen, "is not historical until it takes into account the experience that produced the events and doctrines studied by such method...
Someone else told him that even labor unions are assured of the success of capitalism--"they're putting their funds into stocks. How do you account for that?" "I never heard that before," Trainor barked, and returned to his seat. His lieutenant took over the meeting. Gesturing to a bookcase which displayed such titles as "Only Victorious Socialism Can Prevent the Third World War," he said, "I'm sure you all must have some unanswered questions about our group . . ." The tall student in the back was pulling on his raicoat. "Yah," he said to his friend...