Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Didn't Say No. Would the President run for reelection? Hall answered with by far the boldest words he had permitted himself to use since Sept. 24: "I think he will, if he feels he's able." For 25 minutes after that, the correspondents probed and pried and dug at the G.O.P. chairman, but he did not budge from his position. "I can only give you my opinion," he said. "I did not get anything directly or indirectly. He did not say 'Yes' and he did not say 'No.' I feel encouraged...
...secularist age is penetrating even to Ahmedabad: some Jain priests have recently been seen to remove their masks in public, to eat and drink in restaurants and to use lamps without thought for the safety of moths. Last week things went even farther. One hundred of the boldest priests met and announced that, since intercession with the gods is industrial employment like any other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave a year, three...
...editor (the Sketch's circulation has jumped from 600,000 to 1,000,000 since he took charge 18 months ago). When he saw how many readers wrote in about antireligion BBC broadcasts by Psychologist Margaret Knight (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.), he saw a circulation builder. "The boldest discussion ever attempted by a newspaper." the Sketch proclaimed a few weeks later: IF CHRIST CAME BACK...
...Administration itself. Eased off the front pages by the McCarthy-Army proceedings, all three were left on the fire at a slow boil. It was evident that the Administration's housing bills would be held up, and might undergo serious revisions. Outside of this, not even the boldest of political prophets would be willing to conjecture on what the ultimate effects of the FHA scandals will...
NASH's tiny Metropolitan (TIME, March 22), the boldest bid by any big U.S. manufacturer to establish a small-car market, has gone over well. To date, 8,186 Metropolitans have been sold, and Nash has upped delivery schedules...