Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Union of South Africa's 9,600,000 blacks will get what, before later additions, amounts to only 13% of the land, and far from the best land at that. And for all the glowing promises about a gradual "creative withdrawal" of white leadership, the promised Bantu rights are largely illusory in their own reserves, and nonexistent outside of them in the places where Bantus continue to work...
...feeling in both lands that this might be the last chance for a peace. Last week, boarding his plane for the U.S., Black said cheerfully: "We have reached agreement on certain principles, which we hope will lead to a final settlement." Reserved though the statement was, it is the best news on the Indus waters that anyone has reported since the bloody days of partition...
British Author Aldous (Brave New World Revisited) Huxley, 64, journeyed from his California home to Manhattan, collected $1,000 and a medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "having done the best work of our time in . . . the novel of ideas." In his acceptance speech Huxley modestly disclaimed genius, alluding to an observation by short-necked Honore de Balzac that most men of genius have short necks. Duly noting his own long neck, lanky Novelist Huxley asserted: "Genius, after all, is an alliance of head with heart, and the shorter the neck, the closer that alliance...
...Because we are blind," Student Cowan told the President, "we feel that we must try to do our best." Said Ike, in wonder: "I'll tell you, you are doing your best...
...insane with loneliness and terror through the enormous canceled city. "I'm alive!" he screams, "I'm alive!" But by this time he has lost all hope that anybody else is. He takes up residence in a pleasant apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, begins to make the best of his mournful immense inheritance of culture and convenience...