Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans from the Administration at the first hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty could do very much to take the sensation out of the story...
...vans trucking Ethiopian hides up the new road from Elath. Settlers whose Spartan waves often do without even a dress-up blouse for the Sabbath have opened up nearly 500 new farm communities, and Israel now grows two-thirds of its food. Behind the orange groves of the Philistine coast spread huge chicken ranches where Israel's No. 1 meat fare is fattened for the platter on wire-decked runs as up-to-the-minute as New Jersey...
...wholesome and tart as mince pie. With such forthright energy, the New York Post's Sylvia Porter has made herself the most widely quoted financial writer in the U.S. Her column, "Your Dollar," is studied by Wall Street brokers, Washington economists, Chicago bankers and budget-conscious families from coast to coast. Under the impact of the recession, "Your Dollar's" syndication has almost doubled in the past year, is now printed in 220 papers...
Married. Nightclub Singer-Comedienne Dorothy ("The Park Avenue Hillbilly") Shay (real name: Dorothy Sims), 35; and Richard C. Looman, 38, West Coast P.R. man for Chrysler Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Brentwood, Calif...
They had reached the coast of the Black Sea. The long battle odyssey of some 1,500 miles was over, for here were Greek cities, and here should have been an end of fighting. But the end of fighting brought the beginning of distrust. The soldiers turned against each other. Xenophon had to use all his oratorical skill to keep them from stoning him to death because the troops suspected he planned to use them to found a city instead of taking them home. The glorious march up country ends on this pitiful note of bickering and betrayal. Scarcely half...