Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Executive Drive. By working hard at it, Symington has managed in recent months to improve his performance as a speechmaker. He still flops sometimes, but in New Castle last week, speaking without notes, he got himself across, livening his talk with touches of humor and personal history that rarely show up in his written speeches. Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows...
...Iowa's Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless, who has a vice-presidential gleam in his eye, made an unscheduled sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti...
...Long Silence. "Africa is calling," Donald wrote cheerily. The tour headed south to the Riviera, turned east into Italy, drove across Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon, and finally put their cars aboard a boat bound for Port Said. On July 24, Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food...
...four-nation subcommittee told the U.N. Security Council it did discover evidence that rebels in the restive Asian kingdom had received equipment, arms, supplies and the help of political advisers from the Communist regime across the northern border...
Edison became the world symbol of Yankee ingenuity and looked and acted the part. Moonfaced, with a lock of hair flopping across his brow and a plug of chewing tobacco in his cheek (instead of a spittoon, he would spit on the floor "because you can't miss it"), Edison had acid-stained hands, an explosive vocabulary and a pioneer's instinct for practical jokes. He spouted the slogans of agrarian radicals, railed at U.S. colleges for stuffing students with "Latin, Philosophy and all that ninny stuff," and fiercely defended his agnostic opinions...