Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Senate call-buzzers had stopped one noon last week, a visiting minister delivered a timely invocation. Prayed the Rev. Robert W. Olewiler of Washington's Grace Reformed Church: "Most gracious God, we thank Thee for the miracle of our conscious life by which we behold the wonders of the universe." Then up rose a Senator who had recently beheld the wonders of the universe with Washington's keenest political eye. As the opening order of business. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson moved consideration of a senatorial first step into space, to wit, his own resolution...
...Gurion is still spry, but increasingly conscious of his years. Some suspect he had deliberately ordered Dayan out of uniform and into politics with the idea of grooming him as his successor...
...Hames, 35, helped close down Ottawa's wide-open gambling joints with stories that played up their owners' political connections. He flailed away at thimblerigging in La Salle County's tax assessments, flayed the city government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames took over in 1951, the Republican-Times walked off with the 16-state Inland Daily Press Association's award for coverage of local government...
Amid such feminine confusion confidently strode the most influential fashion reporter in Paris: lanky, dimpled Princetonian John Fairchild. 30. European director of his family's Fairchild Publications, Inc. Fairchild had scored a beat on the openings by predicting fortnight ago in his company's fashion-conscious Women's Wear Daily that "the 1958 woman will wear shorter skirts than last season . . . The chemise [sack] is here to stay, but with new slim or wider versions...
...people still actually alive. As a family play, Sunrise, from considerations of taste, lacks flavor. But the play's limitations stem partly, too, from the writing. When Louis Howe and Al Smith are around, there are lively and worldly moments, and brief flares of comedy. But in self-conscious family scenes, the dialogue tends to be wooden; and at other times, with F.D.R. himself, it tends to seem graven on stone...