Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James) Lindsay Almond Jr. recognizes that the Old Dominion's posture of "massive resistance" to integration has a limited legal future. But as an astute politician hopefully headed for the governor's chair, Lindsay Almond, 59, recognizes something else as well. Massive resistance is the brain child of apple-growing, economy-minded U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, and no Virginian has won statewide office in a quarter-century without Harry Byrd's blessing...
TIDES OF CRISIS, by Adolf A. Berle Jr. (328 pp.; Reynal; $4), finds the mellowing (62) ex-brain truster of F.D.R. days conducting a mildly condescending seminar on the key events of the last quarter-century for the benefit of that global slowpoke, the U.S. public. Author Berle is most provocative when he looks at the mid-century world as a stage and finds it peopled with ghosts...
Mother of Invention. In Chelmsford, England, a group of eleven-year-olds, examined on the word "luxury" but given only the definition "something pleasing to have, but not a necessity," produced several answers, including "brain," "bath," "kiss," "virtue," "wife...
...proof pousse-café for readers of Esquire: On Elvis: "I hear that he's good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there ain't no God." On love: "Whether you're a schoolteacher, advertising man or missionary, a great...
...bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...