Word: balming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuff Eisenhower ambiguity left unclear just what Ike would do if a demand for higher steel wages resulted in higher steel prices-or, for that matter, in a prolonged strike. But seldom had the ambiguity served to better advantage: for without the thunder of a threat or the balm of a promise, the Manhattan negotiators began to feel the gaze of 175 million pairs of eyes...
...begins, form a syndrome that lasts about 12.5 years. The potential alcoholic first takes to sneaking drinks and downing doubles or triples while others are still at the one-drink stage. Soon he gets drunk whenever he drinks, even against his wishes. Next he thinks often about drinking, its balm to life's stresses, begins drinking through the weekend and taking Monday off from his job to recuperate. Though a doctor who knows him well may spot such telltale symptoms early, "all too often the patient is unwilling to see or unwilling to admit that as yet his drinking...
...this is familiar jungle rot, but Scriptwriter Milton Holmes has supplied some measure of balm. He gives Hero Todd a sturdy slug of cussedness with which to wash down the. standard mixture of courage and nobility. And beneath his heroine's wayward bust beats no bromidic heart of gold; she is tough, sardonic, shrewdly mindful of her best interests, passionate only as an escape from boredom. When she finally comes to love her man, it is with an old pro's brand of affection-wary, oddly sincere, and rooted in open-eyed recognition that he is probably...
...Wane. Toward week's end "Judge" Smith's balm began to wear off. Attempting to toss out the bill on a technicality, Smith was firmly overruled by House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Better still, unofficial nose counts by whips of both parties found all but about 40 of the 200 Republicans and more than half the 234 Democrats still prepared to vote down the jury-trial amendment. But as debate continued toward this week's crucial voting, a new wedge was driven in the pro-civil-rights ranks. The driver: no less an advocate than Harlem...
Hunter's message of hope and heart-balm ("Young love, our love, we share with deep emotion") was not lost on his fellow filmsters, nor was its bestseller ranking: first on almost all popularity charts, including first in store sales and on jukeboxes, most often played by disk jockeys. Among Hollywood-be singers who were nibbling at Hunter's slice of the pie last week...