Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contradictory in its appraisal of the progress that we have achieved without any foreign help. Mr. Daniels must have spent his three days in my country soaked in Dominican rum and blinded by the tropical sun if he didn't see the many large beautiful public schools, the big modern hospitals, the new university city, the newly constructed and well-paved roads, the ports, and the hundreds upon hundreds of public facilities built by my government...
Along a dim corridor outside the U.S. Senate chamber one evening strode a big, round-shouldered man with a conspicuous smile curling on lips that more often turn soberly downward. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson was obviously happy with his thoughts. Spotting Anderson alone in the corridor, a newsman hurried up, asked a question heard constantly throughout Washington: "Will he make it?" Anderson paused, drew from his inside coat pocket a well-worn tally sheet, heavily marked with circles and underlines in blue ink. The smile tugged harder at the corners of his mouth...
...Eisenhower, issued at the urging of the Defense Department, the Justice Department and the FBI. He was blamed for the Dixon-Yates contract, but in fact it had been arranged by the Budget Bureau and the White House. He has a widespread reputation as a man of war and big bombs, but devoutly religious Lewis Strauss, a longtime president of New York's Congregation Emanu-El, is a man who opposed the decision to drop A-bombs on Japan in 1945, worked devotedly to promote the U.S.'s Atoms for Peace program, and says: "I look forward...
...big news of the autumn was of course the Presidential election. The country did not go along with Harvard, whose mock election saw Hoover swamp Roosevelt 1,741-620 in the University and 1,211-395 in the College. Roosevelt narrowly missed being beaten in the College election by Norman Thomas, who received only nine fewer votes. The CRIMSON, torn by dissension within the ranks, took no stand on the election, but predicted that the outcome would make very little difference in the long...
...again more recently. The tutorial system was re-examined and intensified, and the House were fruitful topics for sustained interest in trivial problems, notably the subject of inter-House dining. House sports grew in organization, participation, and earnestness, and began to suggest an alternative to the looming professionalism of big-time football. Meanwhile, football relations with Princeton were renewed...