Word: ade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented to the outside world...
...people have done all that was asked of them by the leaders. Ably, Dwight Eisenhower and his Secretary of State have applied American principles to scores of crises around the globe. But each crisis has been met within the limits of its own circumstances. The leaders have not ade quately connected the crises one to another with the sweep of America's suspenseful destiny...
...Scribe. A gang of builders invaded the old structure, gutted the ground floor and prepared to rebuild the entire six floors. Only the outside will remain the same. France's "Law on Historic Monuments" jealously prohibits tampering with the building's traditional façade; city officials refused even to let American Express sandblast its grimy exterior lest this make the nearby grimy Opéra look even dirtier...
...also secretary of the Combined Policy Committee on Atomic Developments, with a pass which admitted him to the U.S. AEC offices at any time of day or night. With his pretty wife and two young children, Maclean outwardly seemed like the perfect young diplomat. But behind his façade of charm, the strain of his double life began to tell...
Since Britain's doughty Poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 68, and Cinemactress Marilyn (The Seven Year Itch) Monroe, 29, met in Hollywood last year, Dame Edith's life has not been the same. Intrigued by the incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said...