Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemies closed in around the little man in the antique wing collar, their curved samurai swords sharpened for his political execution. "You answer in a strong voice, and you look healthy," a conservative mocked him. "The fact that the Prime Minister is able to appear at all ... is due to our spirit of chivalry," taunted a Socialist. At one point during his long inquisition before the Diet, 76-year-old Shigeru Yoshida, Premier of Japan for seven years, began to defend himself, but lost his way through his notes. "Ah ... ah ... ah," he mumbled, shuffling his papers...
...support. After the election in 1952, the new Administration felt called upon to develop a "new" and "bold" and "dynamic" foreign policy. For a time, we heard much about "liberation of the enslaved peoples" and "massive retaliation at times and places of our own choosing." Containment, it would appear from the way the President is talking now, is not such a bad policy. The more difficult area for agreement will be in pushing through measures to prevent the subversion of free peoples by means other than force. Here the President must be prepared to back noble words with deeds...
Teeth & Tongue. Needless doctoring can start right at birth, said Pediatrician Lawson, in cases where a baby happens to be born with teeth. These are often loose and appear to be of little use. But if left alone, they usually become firmly fixed in the jaw, whereas yanking them out may cause bleeding, ulcers or infection. Also, said Dr. Lawson, there is still too much routine clipping of tongues, although it is now known that a long membrane beneath the tongue does not affect speech or nursing to any extent...
...baking sun make him feel good. In the sea haze, from the blue water, amid the occasional flying fish, ideas seem to appear-Hemingway notions about how things are. "When a writer retires deliberately from life, or is forced out of it by some defect, his writing has a tendency to atrophy just like a limb of a man when it's not used." He slaps his growing midriff, which, in his enforced idleness, is spreading fore and aft. "Anyone who's had the fortune or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape...
During nine sittings, ranging from two minutes to an exact hour each, Sutherland made scores of sketches-with and without the cigar, separate eye details, hand studies, expressions and color notes ("eyelids appear almost corn color; cheekbones, pink"). Churchill had a few ideas of his own about the portrait, strongly hinted that he should be painted as a Knight of the Garter. Sutherland sketched him in Garter robes, but quietly set the sketches aside in favor of black coat and striped trousers-more fitting, he believed, for a parliamentary gift...