Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue-national defense-Symington has made it abundantly clear where he stands. He stands for more: more air defense, more brush-fire war strength, more civil defense, more missiles. In his first Senate floor speech, in June 1953, he assailed Republican plans to trim airpower, charged that the Administration was apparently planning to use a "firmly balanced budget" as its weapon in case of Soviet air attack. Since then, he has remained Capitol Hill's most outspoken critic of Eisenhower defense policies, and most persistent warner that the U.S. was dangerously underestimating Soviet military and technological strength...
...four nations gathered at Vaduz last week had the sort of grievances that often lead to war. One of them, with a swollen population of 25,000 to the half square mile, desperately needs Lebensraum. Another has the largest number of Communists per capita in Western Europe, and civil strife is frequent. A third has constant border troubles with its neighbors, who seek to change the nation's traditional way of life...
These Saturday afternoons fans are packing into the ancient concrete bowl of Archbold Stadium (cap. 39,701), the students fret about national rankings, and a battered Civil War cannon keeps up a running drumfire as it booms out each score. Syracuse is now scheduling such national powers as Notre Dame...
...material that seems least convincing. Characters get in and out of wars in a way that seems merely to pass time. Linda marries a New York sculptor who is also a Jew and a Communist, but by the time he gets himself killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes after World War II, but the comments on housing developments, new cars and the Negro problem sound tacked on, like dutiful after-dinner...
...could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys, and Tom Edison left home at 16 for the wandering life of the 19th century telegrapher. During the Civil War and the years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street...