Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expenditures. A bitter lone wolf, Clare Hoffman of Michigan, perhaps the most reactionary man in Congress...
This represents a flirtation with the new isolationism that could easily blossom into romance. Glowing words of praise from GOP super-nationalist Clare Hoffman appear in Kennedy's campaign handouts. The Chicago Tribune and even Basil Brewer, New Bedford's naevus, have endorsed him. John F. Kennedy might be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but he has contributed little while in Congress and raises the unsettling possibility of Democratic isolationism...
...portrait of a saint," writes Clare Boothe Luce, "is only a fragment of a great and still uncompleted mosaic-the portrait of Jesus." Although a sizable portion of Christendom (including the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox communions) honors the saints as man's intercessors with God, historical distances have dimmed most saintly portraits even for the modern Christian, to say nothing of the skeptic who lives next door. To show the "timeliness" of the saints in 1952, Clare Luce has edited Saints for Now (Sheed & Ward; $3.50), 20 sketches of triumphant Christians of the past...
Last week the convention assembled in Hartford. Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce put on a vigorous campaign for the nomination, but the state's Republican leaders were determined to have Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, and their will was done...
Yale's Clarence W. Mendell, 69, former dean of the college and for nearly a generation the "grand old Roman" of the faculty. A tweedy little man with a passion for flashy sport coats and corncob pipes, "Clare" Mendell divided his time between poring over Latin sentence connection, digging up lost Tacitus manuscripts, weeding his vegetables, and just being the sort of gentle scholar that many Yale facultymen have tried to imitate...