Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was an insurance company called John Hancock, and it was a proud kind of company. It was especially proud of its namesake--a bold man unafraid of opinions, who signed a document the world of his time was quick to label "subversive." So proud of him was the company that it told of his principles in full page advertisements in magazines...
...alternate delegate to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights: Donald W. Eastvold, 33, lean, eager-looking attorney general of Washington state. Televiewers remember Eastvold's bold and brilliant leadership ("Beware a young man with a book") in the successful fight against the seating of the Taftist Georgia delegation at last summer's Republican convention...
...more on reputation than result. Cecil B. DeMille, who was nominated for The Greatest Show On Earth-which was far from it-has long been The Grand Old Man of Hollywood Epics. But his work was not so forceful as that of Fred Zinneman in High Noon, nor so bold and imaginative as that of John Huston in Moulin Rouge. The question is: will the Academy continue to choose The Grand Old man of the Year, or will it get back to making honest appraisals of current work...
...Rivalry. Malenkov became bold enough to denounce the Old Bolsheviks as "people rightly called bookworms, who have quotations from Marx and Engels ready for every question . . ." That was a mistake: Malenkov was judged "erroneous" for questioning the Sacred Books. A jealous rival moved in, Andrei Zhdanov. He was of Malenkov's age, but he fought for the Older Bolsheviks by leading a "Back to Marx" movement...
Bishop Barnes, who liked to call himself "the bold, bad bishop," ignored this thinly veiled summons to resign. The archbishop, who has only limited power over British bishops, did not attempt to remove him. But orthodox churchmen kept tossing brickbats in Bishop Barnes's direction, and at church convocations he took to vesting himself outside the regular bishops' robing room, so warm was the disapproval of his colleagues...