Word: candids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...except the stars. The 1,230 Democratic votes are distributed ineffectively among half a dozen front runners and a dozen-odd favorite sons. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer in a classic summation: "The situation is confused or fluid, whichever way you want to look at it." Said a more candid White House staffer: "Hell, we've got plenty of candidates. What we need real bad is a candidate who can beat Eisenhower...
...recovered from the bad-case of personal pique over Washington's failure to warn him of the Yalu bombings. "I do not remember any occasion when a more candid and manly course has been taken by a prominent public man," he said of Acheson's explanation...
...beauty that made her mother's face world famous, Pia had graduated from junior high school only the day before. Her testimony, coming after a spate of harsh charges made by her father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, against Ingrid's present husband, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, was candid enough to set her elders straight. Judge Mildred Lillie and Ingrid's suave lawyer, Gregson Bautzer, asked the questions...
...Candid Cameras. Until the Leica (a compound of Leitz and camera) was invented in 1914 by Oskar Barnack, a Leitz employee, the company was one of the world's leading makers of microscopes.* Its founder, Ernst Leitz, a German who had worked with a Swiss watchmaker before settling in Wetzlar, introduced the watch industry's mass-production technique to microscopy. When the Leica was added as a sideline, the tail began wagging the dog. As a worldwide craze for miniature cameras and candid photography grew, so did Leitz. By World War II, the company had 3,000 employees...
...Clad Thompson, Kansas City Star: "It is the full and candid view of the most important question in the world today...