Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator, big house, etc., when the whites are kicked out of Nyasaland? Are these the words of responsible leaders? Is it so difficult to understand that Britain can safely allow this sort of nonsense to be spouted daily at Hyde Park Corner, but not in Blantyre to an unsophisticated audience of Africans...
...rests on a massive atomic counterblow-"one of the most unlimited and inhumane strategies ever devised by man." The ultimate peril of "massive retaliation," says Ways, is that the U.S. will become more and more reluctant to apply it to small incursions, be crowded more and more into a corner where nothing else is left. Ways, who wants no part of preventive war, would keep the strong forces of planes and missiles, but hope for military thinking that does not shrink from applying varying degrees of force to widely understood political objectives...
...Francisco Giants on a tottering perch at the head of the National League. Last week Sad Sam chomped morosely on his customary toothpick and turned a sullen eye on the Philadelphia Phillies. His crackling curve ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When he was through, the Giants had won 9-1, and Jones had scored his second victory in six days to become the Giants' first 20-game winner (20-12) since...
Flat v. Round. By dugout standards, Jones is something of a wit, delights in snipping up the socks and shorts of teammates, who retaliate by cutting the brims off the hats he wears to cover his thinning, reddish-brown hair. Jones also always wears a toothpick in a corner of his mouth, although he once almost choked when one stuck in his throat after a collision with Milwaukee's Hank Aaron. "I'm strictly a flat-toothpick man," says Jones. "Those round ones get stuck between the bicuspids and molars. And I don't go much...
...median schooling of adult Americans has risen to 10.8 years (and will be 12.2 by 1965). Against 95,000 graduates in 1900, U.S. high schools this year produced 1,500,000, and half of them are going to college. And out of public schools in every corner of the land have marched armies of the nation's future leaders...