Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of his stay in Paris, the President was immersed in the problems of the present. He had already conferred privately with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. France's Felix Gaillard had called to tell the President that practically every Frenchman is convinced that the U.S. has covert designs on North Africa, particularly on the Sahara's oil. Shocked, Ike told Gaillard emphatically that the U.S. had no intention of supplanting French interests in North Africa, or of interfering in the war in Algeria...
...EUGENE COVERT Dearborn, Mich...
Second Mayflower. Beyond all these worries Jack Kennedy must stand for Senate re-election next year. The fact in itself is simple-but the problem is peculiar. To be sure, Kennedy has Democratic enemies, covert and overt, in Massachusetts. Congressman John McCormack is one example, although the foxy old House majority leader has recently been talking pro-Kennedy for all he is worth. The mutual esteem between Kennedy and Governor Foster Furcolo is at best on-again-off-again; some waspish Bostonians attribute it to the theory that "Gaelic and garlic don't mix." But Jack Kennedy is beyond...
...music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; book by Harburg and Fred Saidy) boasts Lena Horne and much that is stylish and charming. Its achievement, to be sure, is more one of atmosphere than of action, of grace than of speed. The humor in Jamaica is covert and glancing; the very hurricanes blow up too fast to be spectacular; even the calypso recalls an island charmer of long...
...very first inning with a three-run homer to left. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst rapped another to right in the fifth. Rightfielder Bob Hazle, a remarkable rookie from Wichita, got three hits and boosted his four-week batting average back to an amazing .500. Meanwhile, Pitcher Lew Burdette, the covert spitballer still waiting for his first victory over Brooklyn this year (though he is 13-7 for the season), was so sharp he never had to open his mouth. Throwing them dry, Burdette beat up the Dodgers...