Word: broom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buffalo, after noting that his audiences had included a group of housewives brandishing brooms, Ike pleaded especially for the women's vote to sweep away "bad government": "I know what can be done with a good broom in the hands of a morally indignant woman...
...everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces of whisk-broom straw...
...steamed back to port, the crew hung an oversize broom on a mast. It was a symbol for "sweeping the sea," and a rehearsal for the day when the United States hopes to win the Blue Ribbon Atlantic speed record from the Queen Mary (three days and 20 hours, 42 minutes, or an average speed of 31.69 knots), and bring the prize to the U.S. for the first time in 100 years.* The United States will sail July 3 on her maiden voyage under Commodore Harry Manning. Weather permitting, Commodore Manning hopes to capture the speed record on the first...
...Hearst's home paper, the New York Journal-American, is a testing ground for the changes. Its front-page and inside make-up is being transformed and its editorials have taken a sharp turn toward more temperate writing, more attention to local issues. But nowhere is the new broom more evident than in the American Weekly, Sunday magazine supplement for the chain. As a result of an overhauling that has been in the works for eight months, the weekly has been completely revamped and modernized (TIME...
...McThing (by Mary Chase) reveals the author of Harvey in her accustomed whimsical mood. But though Mrs. Chase's fancy leaps, her stagecraft stumbles and shuffles; and though the playwright bangs about on a broomstick, what the play really needs is a broom...