Word: archly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past two years. They will be able to institute needed measures that were quite forgotten by the 83rd Congress, such as revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a realistic immigration policy. More important, they will be able to organize both Houses--to replace as majority leaders such arch-isolationists as Senator William Knowland and Representative Joseph Martin. And publicity-happy demagogues like McCarthy, Jenner, and Velde will lose their chairmanships. The security program would proceed with more sense and less sensation. Two years ago, the Republicans came into office saying it was "time for a change." The nation...
...Laura it is a developing Webb that holds one's interest. Watching him learn to set his sneering lip just so, arch a well-trimmed eye-brow at a studied angle, and tinge his voice with the exact tone of what passes for atrophying scorn, provides an interesting two hours. In the context of a middling good detective story, the early Webb is irrestible...
Three broadcasters and reporters have agreed to conduct the projected interviews: Louis M. Lyons '20, Curator of the Nieman Fellows and a newscaster on WGBH; Arch Parsons, a former UN reporter: and Peter B. Kenes, who produced and wrote a program of UN news last year...
Gift from the Gods. It was not by any means Scarborough's only blow at the clamorous ambitions of Nye Bevan. He was soundly licked for party treasurer by his arch rival Hugh Gaitskell and, since he had deliberately refused to stand for sure re-election to the party executive, this left him without an official position in the party leadership for the first time in ten years...
Every 30 yards along the five-mile trip from the airport to the presidential palace was an arch of bright cloth decorated with pictures of President Eisenhower. On a street corner a scrawled sign read: "We thank the United States for its help." Girls pelted Holland with flowers as he drove slowly through the crowd in an open car. On the presidential balcony, to echoing applause, President Victor Paz Estenssoro told Holland that "these are people who, when offered a helping hand, know how to be grateful and affectionate...