Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the 1,128-page record of the hearings, Democrats extracted the main ammunition for attacking Strauss on the Senate floor. Gist of the Democratic charge: Strauss's testimony is sprinkled with half truths and even lies. But the ammunition is small-bore stuff, proving only that under rough and hostile questioning, Strauss can be evasive, quibblesome and not above beclouding a point with big handfuls of debater's dust. Example, one that Gale McGee considers especially damaging to Strauss...
...publics of Western Europe and the U.S., the ritual dance at Geneva had become a deadly bore. Dwight Eisenhower said last week that the Geneva talks had not yet made enough progress to justify a summit conference. Nikita Khrushchev was just as candid about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
...Britain these days to have a Rolls-Royce, tremendously in to drive a battered Land Rover. The royal family, according to Editor Stevens, is in just so long as it is treated lightly. "One says, 'I'm giving a little party. I know it's a bore, but the Queen is coming. Never mind, she will leave about 2 and then we can enjoy ourselves.' That is terribly, terribly...
...shilling-paying visitors to his stately country home, has become an out, says Queen's Stevens, "because he has comnlercialized what he has inherited, and enjoyed doing it. It is 'in' to open your house to the public, but you must say, 'Oh, what a bore this is.' " Land is important to all ins, "but only an out would inquire the number of acres. Instead, one asks: 'How many days' shooting have you?' The reply, 'Four first days,' means about 8,000 to 10,000 acres...
...same wages. When classes begin, the props are Spartan: a few books, a folding blackboard. Recalls Welfare Worker Dean Bowman, who arrived at the Geco uranium mines in northwestern Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...