Word: clashings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mornings are difficult--what with people surging hither and yon in their daily occupations, the assaults of the shoe-shine boys, the little league, the baby carriage brigade and the woman shoppers; the subterranean rumble of the subway, the distant cacophony of bells, the mingled shouts of children and clash of pin-ball machines. Saddened (perhaps by the morning's news or the "No Loitering" sign), Harold sometimes sits at the corner table by the window and counts green book bags passing by or reads Kafka or sublimates with secretaries on their way to work...
...integration in Little Rock in almost hushed tones. In Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957), cloaked in the power and authority of his recent nomination and assured election to a third term, got from his loyal legislature the power to continue segregation. For stories on the historic clash of men and ideas, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, At the Crossroads, Three Virginia Cities, and Going...
...health," last week riddled the ritual: no sooner had he got his backslap and thanks from Dwight Eisenhower than he blurted that his high blood pressure had little to do with his leavetaking, that he really did not want to resign. The real reason behind his retirement: a continuing clash of personalities and philosophies with his boss, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, whom Wilkins had criticized for giving "leftist labor leaders" too much voice in department policy...
...Walker, whose smile was as brightly gleaming as the chrome on his cars. But by May. when sales and production turned increasingly sour, so did the faces in Detroit as chronicled in a second cover on the industry's Big Three. With a clink of tools and a clash of cymbals this week, the production lines start up for 1959's new models-cars whose appeal, or the lack of it, will have a telling effect on the course of the U.S. economy. For what the new autos will look like, make by make, how big the market...
...every Mass he said. Author Gage's intention was to shock his English Puritan public with the riches and avariciousness of the Roman church in the New World; today's reader might feel that he is being conducted by an accountant among the wonders of a clash of faiths and civilizations...