Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Fulbright was asked if he would look into, among other things, the steep rise in the stock market. Why, yes, said Fulbright, "we ought to have a look." The headlines that followed his off-the-cuff answer caused Wall Streeters to brace themselves for something like the Pecora investigation...
...EXCHANGE OF JOY (250 pp.)-Isabel Quigly-Harcourt, Brace...
...lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
AMERICA AT MID-CENTURY (357 pp.)- André Siegfried - Harcourf, Brace...
...GOOD MAN is HARD TO FIND, AND OTHER STORIES (251 pp.)-Flannery O'Connor-Harcourt, Brace...