Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best bridge is played in hindsight, not in tournaments...
...already begun. The community used the year to good advantage. There were no formal meetings, sermons, speeches or editorials, but community leaders set up an informal living-room and street-corner campaign to tell the youngsters matter-of-factly that September would bring integration and they should make the best...
...hell, Pat." Pat Brown grinned happily, pumped hands with a proficiency that would make Estes Kefauver seem like a subway straphanger. "Hey," he cried to no one in particular. "I feel a speech coming on." Candidate Brown was in his element, doing what he knows and likes best. He was being just plain Pat, making himself liked-and running well ahead of the opposition...
...department-store chain last week. For cherubic Fred Lazarus Jr., 73, chairman of Federated Department Stores, Inc., this enjoyment of selling has paid big dividends. Last year for the first time Federated edged Allied Stores as the nation's top retailer. Last week Federated reported its best earnings ever: six-month profits of $7.9 million from sales of $280 million...
...live. In Just Tell Me Who It Was, a happy May-December match promises never to be the same again after the young wife's blue lace girdle turns up among the lost-and-found items of an all-night country club bacchanal. The funniest and possibly the best story in the book is called The Sorrows of Gin. Amy, a grave sub-teen-ager senses vaguely that the border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing...