Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field, however, Willie was content to be just Willie. DiMag, with his effortless ground-eating lope, made the hard ones look easy. Willie, with his jackrabbit sprint and his flashy, breadbasket catch, made even the high, arcing flies that fielders call "cans of corn" look hard. Willie could break a batter's heart with astonishing, acrobatic saves. Everything he did in the field he did instinctively well...
R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (83,673 tons) completed the 3,007 nautical miles from Ambrose Light to Bishop Rock at an average 29.73 knots-her fastest eastbound crossing since the war. The Queen's No. I passenger, Sir Winston Churchill, expressed himself content with the passage, and manfully concealed his disappointment in the outcome of his talks with President Eisenhower. "We have not entirely failed," said he upon landing, pink-faced and zesty, at Southampton...
Doctors have usually been content to leave the subject of sleep to the poets, but now they are being forced to give it increasing attention because, in high-speed modern society, insomnia is leading to an alarming dependence on drugs...
Loping Along. The western has changed considerably in Raine's span. Raine has changed too but not radically. He has been content to lope along an endless Chisholm trail of escape that carries millions of readers to happy endings. He has always been modest about his success, has never thought of himself as a "literary" man. He rode with the Arizona Rangers, drank in campfire tales, covered many of the cattle and mining wars. He looks back with comfortable nostalgia on the people of the Old West. "Any of them would have ridden 30 miles to fetch...
...Stewart had fitted about 60 of the fragments into part of a skull, and he was convinced that it is extremely old for a relic of New World man. Dr. F. J. McClure of the National Institute of Health analyzed both animal and human bones for their fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom man, who therefore remains a ghost...