Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote goes to the best Vice President in the history of the U.S. (and probably the next Chief Executive), Richard Nixon. ROGER STANTON Detroit...
...Year story contained this passage: "What the world would best remember in 1945 was the deadly mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future. In their giant shadows, 45,000 ft. tall, all men were pygmies." The cover showed a small face of Harry Truman, a man caught and dwarfed by the might of the new Atomic...
...best-oiled Negro political machine in the U.S. is run by Chicago's Congressman William L. Dawson, 71 ("The Lion of the South Side"). Nobody knew it better last week than United Auto Workers' Political Action Committeeman Willoughby Abner, who got thrown out as president of the booming (13,300 members) Chicago chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. because he picked a personal fight with Dawson. A year ago Abner sensed that many a Chicago Negro felt Dawson was wrong in helping work out a compromise civil rights plank at the Democratic National Convention. Abner persuaded South Side Negroes...
...lease to TV outfits when it is not being used to make the big, quality films on which moviemakers now concentrate. Production of high-budget films is on the upturn. Tough old Sam Goldwyn said slyly: "If Mr. Silverman will take good care of his theaters and play the best pictures available, keeping in mind how good they are rather than how cheaply he can get them, I am sure that he will not go out of business." Apparently just as sure, in spite of his cries of wolf, Alarmist Silverman went ahead with plans to help back...
...their choice will be vastly broader, but they will find no mention of hellfire or corruption. About the only danger to a child's complacency is the threatened loss of Christmas-an anxiety that, surprisingly, provides the plot for three of the season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ("This was the gruesome, grimsome guard/That ruled the land under Evilard/And decided to outlaw Christmas"), and Phyllis McGinley in The Year...