Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedroom Victorian frame house under an old-fashioned mansard roof. He pondered one of the most serious decisions of his Administration when Secretary Dulles came to the vacation White House office to work out the draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends as U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney and Washington Lawyer-Industrialist George E. Allen, roly-poly White House jester through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower regimes, failed to give the needed break from the world's pressing worry...
...last May to 44%. The shift is only a bare 2%, and it shows that the Republicans have a long way to go. But it marks unmistakably the public awareness that conditions have changed, promises that the 1958 election can still be hard fought to a close finish...
Brown he was blocking the entrance, ordered him to one side. Brown stepped away, looked suspiciously at several pigeons flapping close overhead, glanced suspiciously at the shoulders of his fresh grey suit. Thirty paces in front, his aides worked at their cheerleading tasks. "Shake hands with Pat Brown," they shouted, "your candidate for Governor...
...Republicans from 30 districts carefully gerrymandered by a state legislature long under G.O.P. control. But after the 1960 census, California will probably rate 37 House seats (v. 40 for New York). If Pat Brown can lead his party to an across-the-board sweep this year and come even close to maintaining his pace while in office, then a Democratic state legislature will control the post-census redistricting in 1961. Already Democratic planners have figured out how to gerrymander for 22 shoo-in Democratic districts against 15 Republican possibles...
...moments, and moments only, Cheever's characters can be possessed by joy, reveling in the "idle splash and smell of a heavy rain" or scenting on some passing breeze "the salt air in the churches of Venice." But guilt and remorse close in like sudden fog, a free-floating guilt that seems to swirl around some atavistic memory of the Good Life. Thus an errant wife who has drunk and danced through the night is startled by the birds of dawning: "The pristine light and the loud singing reminded her of some ideal-some simple way of life...