Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn medicine show about Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side-of-the-road. No one but Estes would pause to cut a hole in his sock because his toe hurt ("Gotta give it some air"); only Estes could stand in the Janesville, Wis. public square, beside a flower bed vivid with petunias...
...even in the midst of a touch-and-go campaign. As yet there has been no similar Republican effort in this direction. Nixon's statement that he is an honorary member of the NAACP seems calculated only to rile a South which still holds itself proud. Certainly Nixon's approach can have no constructive effect. But the President is capable of a dignity which might possibly carry off an Eisenhower version of Stevenson's "direct confrontation." It remains to be seen whether President Eisenhower will take advantage of this new victory of attitude over the South's carefully cultivated irrationality...
...nearly as good as the teams the Crimson will be facing in the Ivy League, and a sharper performance must be forthcoming if the team is to approach last year's record, or even to get past its two games next week...
With the turning of the leaves and the rapid approach of the gridiron season, familiar grumblings about the system of ticket distribution again highlight dinner tabletalk. The old bruhaha continues to evoke undergraduate gripes and groans, most complainers failing to realize why they must bear the gross inconvenience of requesting their billets two weeks in advance...
Eliot's position was far, however, from the-Dickey-boys-will-be-amusing-won't-they, approach. In theory he wanted exactly what Garrison advised when he poetically entreated the President to "Ring in nobler modes of life with sweeter manners, nobler laws...