Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaceful beauty, for all its graceful ways, for all Lindsay Almond's relaxed composure, Virginia was deeply, darkly troubled. The trouble lay in the issue of an era, an issue bound to come fittingly, inevitably to clearest focus in Virginia. It was as simple as this: Should Virginia obey the law of the land by allowing Negro children to attend school with whites? Or should Virginia close its public schools, blindly following a legalistic road that might well lead to the violence that Virginia's leaders most deplore? U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia's benign but absolute...
...Pool? "If I had my way," he went on, "I would like to see the whole Middle East quarantined and the sovereignty of each and every one of the states guaranteed by the great powers." His practical preference for economic solutions rather than political revolutions came clearest in his proposal that "the oil resources of the area be brought under international control and used for the benefit of the local people...
...would seem that these developments--along with the creation of the College Scholarship Service, and the growing interest in urban renewal around Cambridge--were the matters of University policy which had the clearest portents for the future...
...Freedom under law is like the air we breathe," wrote President Dwight Eisenhower as he prepared his speech celebrating the first U.S. Law Day this week. "People take it for granted and are unaware of it-until they are deprived of it. The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened where there is no rule of law1. The dread knock on the door in the middle of the night...
Leaving the Indian Treaty Room at conference's end, more than one newsman was impressed enough to report that the clearest springtime voice to be heard last week was the voice of the President...