Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, Krock noted, it would not even be good politics for the Republicans to take foreign policy out of the campaign. For perhaps the greatest asset of the G.O.P. derives from the very heart of foreign policy-and the fact that since 1953 the U.S. has not been...
Furr virtually guarantees some general results for everyone. Memory, for instance, is an asset which he claims can be sharpened to such a degree that "names, faces, places, events, or things, can be recalled quickly and easily." Eliminating the frequency of bad colds and obviating fatigue are other typical accomplishments of the Processing...
Obviously, the Callas talent would be an asset to any opera company, and the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Rudolf Bing has coveted it for years. But Soprano Callas-who insists that she must be the highest-paid member of any company in which she sings-indignantly refused the Met's ceiling of $1,000 per performance. Instead she accepted a reported $2,000 from Chicago's fledgling Lyric Theater company (TIME, Nov. 15, 1954). Said she at the time: "Who is the Met, my father or something? The Met can't afford...
Yale, with a four-two win-loss record, has depth at least equal to that of the Crimson. And the varsity's depth has been its major asset in defeating such teams as B.U. and Dartmouth, both of whom were beaten because they did not have as many fast runners as did the Crimson...
...play has its moments. But besides going all around the mulberry bush, it offers too much routine sentiment and commonplace writing. The evening's one great asset is Louis Calhern's fine playing of the tangy, once powerful, still dignified...