Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demure organdy, roly-poly Little Esther herself had to step over a circle of backstage crapshooters to get onstage. Once there, she flashed a big gold tooth into the spotlight. Bandleader Johnny Otis laid down a fat and winsome chord, and Little Esther cut her big, warm, billowing voice adrift on a blues...
...have been Churchill's task to launch the lifeboats, but TIME'S editorial staff must certainly have missed the boat, or at least been adrift in one, when it selected the cherubic bulldog as the "Man of the Half-Century." Could it be that your ever-apparent bias toward Franklin D. Roosevelt eliminated him as the only obvious choice-or does TIME require more time to see things in their true perspective...