Word: clue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a hard look at the U.S. in a time of shock gave evidence that not even Adams' historical learning had a clue to the reaction of the U.S. people to "a heart attack in the family," i.e., the President's. It could be easily shown that the presidency had become both more powerful and closer to the people than either the 18th or 19th centuries had dreamed it might. From this, it would seem to follow that the sudden illness of a figure as cherished as Dwight Eisenhower would shake the republic to its foundations...
When Author Fast went to jail in 1948 for contempt of Congress, he proclaimed that his persecutors were non-human characters, trying to turn the U.S. into an "abomination." This is a valuable clue to the art of Author Fast, for the people in his stories are not exactly human...
...seem to see that Moral Re-Armament ... is a very wise investment for any government in the free world. Your U.S. re-education program after the war told us about great Americans like Lincoln and Jefferson, but I did not find a clue then . . . When I was put in an Allied jail as a Hitler Youth leader-I celebrated my 19th birthday there-it did not help much either. I'll always be grateful for the Marshall Plan aid because it saved my little brother's life and millions of Germans from starvation. But by giving...
...elephants-of-war tramped up the Rhone tributary that is now called the Isére. Old historians stated clearly that at that time (October), the river was in flood. The Isére does not flood in October, but another tributary, the Durance, does. Another clue in favor of the Durance is that Hannibal was reported to have passed three Gallic tribes. Old records show that their territories became modern dioceses on the Durance...
...phoned Robertson, who refused to let him accompany him to the airport. Rushing to the airport alone. Beal questioned DOS men waiting to see the party off. They were noncommittal. But Beal, circulating and asking circumspect questions, picked up the clue that sent him racing back into the maze of Washington officialdom...